Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry the definitive solution is available. Open a DNG from the MM at 100% resolution on a good monitor. ...There now it's only an extra few thousand you have to find somewhere ;-) Like those state of the art lenses, you don't *need* that extra quality but.... Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 4 October 2012 21:19, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote: > Do you know, I may be talking total Leica heresy here but I really don't > see the point of the Monochrom. It seems to me that any .dng image from it > is going to need as much post-processing as a 'normal' colour .dng from > (say) the M9 converted to monochrome. > > OK, they are now coming to put on the funny jacket and take me to a 'place > of safety' for my own good. > > Gerry > > Gerry Walden > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or > +44 (0)797 287 7932 > www.gwpics.com > > On 4 Oct 2012, at 11:47, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote: > > > That, to me, looks like an MM shot taken as a DNG and converted in > > Lightroom or PS without any manipulation. If you shoot .jpgs in the > > camera they come out looking quite different to this. > > > > Marty > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> How did you manage to neutralize all your cameras settings? > >> As I know when you shoot a jpeg there are all kinds of settings. > >> And it looks like what you've got set here is ultra low contrast. > >> Not sure what see can tell by seeing such an image. > >> I'd do your normal routine with it. Show us that. > >> > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> Photography > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > >> > >> > >>> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:14:33 -0400 > >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Converted M9 and 75/1.4 > >>> > >>> Because this is what they look like straight out of the camera: > >>> > >>> http://www.pbase.com/image/146449509 > >>> > >>> Too flat for me but necessary if you are going to have all of the tones > >>> there to do what you want with them. Silver Efex software comes with > the > >>> MM. I like the effects of Silver Efex and also Exposure 3 which I > already > >>> had. > >>> > >>> Tina > >>> > >>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at > >>> gmail.com > >wrote: > >>> > >>>> I may have missed something or am confused (more likely): Do you run > the MM > >>>> images through Silver Efex Pro? If so, why? > >>>> > >>>> --Bob > >>>> > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> Tina Manley, ASMP > >>> www.tinamanley.com > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >