Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/16

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Subject: [Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:26:26 +0100
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Why do you think they give you a free copy of SilverEfex free of charge?  ;>)

Gerry

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On 16 May 2012, at 09:24, Richard Man wrote:

> For some reasons, when I heard about the Leica MM, for no logical reasons
> at all, I was imagining that the images would look like Tri-X, or other
> great B&W film, just shot in ISO 100,000 or whatever.
> 
> Well, no, they look like digital images converted to B&W:
> http://www.slack.co.uk/slack/henri_images.html
> 
> Yes, I know one can convert and process and plug-in to make anything looks
> like any old film, but it just jolted me a little on how stupid my
> assumption was.
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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