Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The point of the camera is not less post processing. Its not to get people off the hook and this pesky black and white conversion thing. Which can be done in about twenty seconds. But twenty seconds too long for some lets spend 8 grand to avoid it! Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:19:04 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Converted M9 and 75/1.4 > > 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