Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Dennis, Like most B&W films films, the sensor in the Monochrom is a bit more blue sensitive than your eyes, so you need a filter to bring the tonality back to what you expect, particularly in open shade where there is so much blue light, or where there is blue sky in your photo. So with the B&W files from the Monochrom if you shoot without a coloured filter the original is different to a filtered one, and while the files are immensely manipulable, there are limits to how far you can push them and you can't totally emulate the look of a filtered photo in software - it's not like converting a colour digital file to B&W. What the software does make much easier is increasing shadow contrast lost to lower shadow speed from filtration, and further enhancing the tonal separation that the filter gives you. It's also easier (for me) that way. I will be posting plenty more soon. Marty On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com> wrote: > Marty, > Do you prefer to use yellow filters on lens? I'm old school & > rather use filters on lens for B&W instead of adding with software. > Waiting to see more with the Monochrome. > > Dennis > > > _____________________________ >> From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Fri, October 5, 2012 7:56:28 PM >> Subject: [Leica] [PESO] Cafe man >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Europe_2012/Italy/Rome+cafe+man.jpg.html >> >> >> MM, 50 Hexanon, yellow filter. >> >> Comments etc appreciated. Many more to come. >> >> Marty >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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