Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Very well put Mark, and I am with you all the way. Gerry Gerry Walden +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or +44 (0)797 287 7932 www.gwpics.com On 19 May 2012, at 07:29, Mark Rabiner wrote: > My point is not to say people are saying film is better. > But that its being said there is a discernable difference even at smallish > file sizes Between film and digital imagery. > And I feel strongly there is no tonality advantages to film unless the sun > is in the picture behind some clouds. Maybe. > They only way you know film from digital is where the noise lands. > Highlights for film, shadows for digital. > And you see those kinds of things only in real big pix. Not the stuff we > see > on the internet. Which tends in most cases to be the only stuff anybody > ever > sees. > > I'm against film emulation software which puts grain in the highlights and > gives a red over sensitive "tri x look". > Its baloney. And The inference is there is some advantage to the "film > Look". > Well there is no "film look". Not in the file sizes we see on the internet. > > If I and a lot of photographers I know thought that there was some > worthwhile film look we'd be shooting film to get that look. Not digital > and > hyper compensation for it. > > I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! > I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! > > I'm against doing one thing and pretending its another thing. > There's a real back stabbing passive aggressive element to it. > > > - - from my iRabs. > Mark Rabiner > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > > >> From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 17:46:24 +1200 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film! >> >> http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/leica-m-x-r/37364-leica-m-monochromatic-proces >> sing-insights.html which links to >> >> http://fotografz.smugmug.com/Photography/Jonos-MM-files/23016060_2TzGLp#!i=1 >> 851170263&k=swB4gbS >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Mark, no one says film is better. If you look at the referred to images, >> they were quite flat. The author eventually admits that he could have done >> more and indeed he passed the files to other people who did more and the >> images were 100% better. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information