well hidden house - to the compression: there is a way out: I see that you uploaded a greyscale mode file - change it into RGB and the result on UF will be better - I think there is a special USM for greyscale files on UF (but there are places on the Internet where greyscale gets compressend even wit less quality ...)
E.K. -- Many thanks. The G-series lenses are the finest I've ever used, not just sharp but somehow brilliant and capable of what I think are unusually luminous images. Lab tests generally put them in the same ballpark as Leica's M-series lenses.
I spent much of January and February trying different combinations of film and developer and shooting technique, trying hard to find a good reason to keep from selling my Contax G2 kit now that I have several digital SLR's and P&S's. Frankly, I couldn't find a situation where film, even slow film, gave me a cleaner and sharper image than, say, my Canon 10D (with good Canon lenses). In 7 x 11 prints, the 10D images really do look like 6 x 7cm work. They're simply noiseless, even at ISO 400.
So I looked in another direction and think I can justify the G2 precisely because it turns out noisy but luminous B&W. Instead of a low-speed, fine-grain film I'm generally using Neopan 400, which produces burnished images with a textured finish. And instead of making photos with few small details, I'm filling the images with broken detail of the sort you see here, or in "Dog Run." The down side is that this doesn't always look good at Web resolution. It does work here, I think, at least in the less-compressed version in my personal gallery, and certainly in the print. ("Dog Run" makes a spiffy 12 x 18.)
very very good. Unbelievable detail. I had heard that the lens that you've used is very sharp, but I did not expect that sharp.. This is like large format.
I should say (again) that Usefilm's compression pushes my B&W's over the edge. I like them sharp, sharpen them as much as I dare, but I don't believe I oversharpen them. You can always find the originals via http://www.quinbus.net/gallery (in this case at http://www.quinbus.net/gallery/04_February/551_35).
0 
