Leica M comparison with Contax645

<p>Simple answer/ If you shoot hand held Leica shakes far less than any MF camera, so unless you use a tripod leica will always come out better (except for the grain as you have to enlarge more). I had an absolutely identical experience with Leica and Hasselblad (incidently I used the Hassie ELM with electric release an that was better than the mecanical 500cm). So if you cannot or does not want to shoot tripod bound photo: use a Leica.</p>

<p>Concur with Niel Ambrose..basically all things being equal, given quality glass like both Contax and Leica make, Medium Format will be much higher IQ. Not only in practical results under a loop, but commonsense wise too. Think about it, given equal coverage let's say a MF 80mm and Leica 50 mm you will, depending on the framing of the MF get basically the same coverage, yet the MF negative gets the same picture information on a negative that is much bigger than the 35mm negative. There's just going to be a lot more information there. Maybe in printing it doesn't become obvious until a certain size happens, but if you look under a good loop you will see it.</p>

<p>Sorry, but this comparison is stupid!</p>