Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/20

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Subject: [Leica] M8-magenta an overblown issue?
From: harrison at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Mon Nov 20 06:59:26 2006
References: <009001c70b89$2802dd90$6401a8c0@FrankDell2>

In looking at the photos in the pop photo article and others it is 
striking me that the magenta cast is not that strong, I was expecting 
something WAY over the top not this subtle cast.  In the old days of 
film different films recorded colors differently, there is no hard and 
fast "This is the right color" it all depends on the method by which it 
was recorded.  Does no one remember how incredibly BLUE the old 
ektachrome was?  Or how people got pissed when Fuji shifted the color 
balance on the old 100D film to be less warm?

In looking at those photos the pants have a slightly different hue, but 
so does the shirt and he grass and in the Nikon shot the shirt is much 
uglier than the M8 shot and the grass less green and skin tones more 
yellowish in the Nikon shot.  I think it would be very hard to comment 
on how bad this issue is unless you were the photographer and know what 
the colors are supposed to be. 

In any event looking at these samples it is not something that would 
drive me totally nuts.

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