Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Mark, especially for including some higher res versions of the pics too. The shot of the small fibreglass boats is a really pleasing image. As an aside, looking at the exif info, your pics and those posted by Richard, I assume that the lenses used were uncoded. I don't see any visible vignetting in any pic as posted. That's a very good thing, I would say. Thanks so much to you guys for posting impressions and the pics. The LUG is building a good information base, courtesy of our pioneering users. Cheers Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of MARK DAVISON Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2006 09:25 To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: RE: [Leica] Rockport Leica Seminar - M8 Impressions I also had an opportunity to shoot the M8 for a few hours at Rockport. My impressions mostly follow Richard's. A few additional comments: I have been using Lightroom beta 4 for processing groups of photographs. I found I had to do a lot of tweaking with the DNG files coming from the M8, but they do look nice after some work. When I shot DNG + JPG, the JPGs look quite good, so Lightroom really is not respecting the in camera processing settings. I did not have the Leica provided Capture One converter available to me. I tried using manual exposure on a cold morning, and my stiff finger kept hitting the on-off switch and turning the camera off when I was trying to set the shutter speed. Samples can be found at http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/MarkEDavison/Rockport+M8+samples/ These are all jpgs produced from DNG originals via Adobe Lightroom. In a few cases I had to do further compression via Photoshop CS2 to come in under the 5 MB limit. The panorama was quickly stitched together in Photoshop--there are a few stitching glitches remaining. Overall I find the M8 a marvelous camera. It is tuned towards very high resolution rather than noise suppression. The color and dynamic range available from the DNG files is very good, but there is a tendency towards overly magenta shadows in skin tones that I found hard to take out with Lightroom beta 4. I've got an M8 on order. Mark Davison _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information