[Leica] First M8 experience

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 1/27/07 9:38 PM, "Jim Laurel" <jplaurel@spectare.com> typed:

> So here's a dumb test shot, taken this morning right outside my front
> door.
> 
> Here's the shot from the Canon EOS1DS.  Natural color, as I have come
> to expect from this camera.  No problems here.
> http://www.twango.com/media/jim.public/jim.12553?sort=5
> 
> Here's the shot from the leica.  Wow!  Disneyland!  Notice how many
> of the plants in the foreground have gone magenta.  And if you click
> through to the larger image, notice all the color fringing in the
> high contrast areas:
> http://www.twango.com/media/jim.public/jim.12552?sort=5
> 
> Some people are emailing me and saying that they have not had any
> trouble like this in several weeks of using the camera, even with no
> IR filters.  Have I got a bad one?  Because it is completely unusable
> as it is.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> 
I  would go into Photoshop and desaturate the magenta a bunch.
Although it looks red not magenta to me.
desaturate the red.
Or the magenta and yellow separately.
I do that with most my pictures anyway and I shoot with a Nikon D200.
Desaturate the gamut of colors individually so they are less gaudy.
What did the tree really look like?

Mark Rabiner
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