Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can see A. Adams color work at least a whole book on it its not that memorable. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Emanuel Lowi <manolito at videotron.ca> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:38:02 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions > > Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will capture > images > in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey? Grey? The > colour of age and Death? > > This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something. That > was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice bright > colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice. > > I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting landscapes in > b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory. > > The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could > reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or imagine they > knew better. > > Emanuel > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information