Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/29

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Subject: [Leica] Halloween with the Monochrom
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:45:40 -0500
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On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:35 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:

> They look pretty good on my 27" iMac screen, and if they are anything like 
> the prints I saw from Tina's MM they have to be pretty terrific.
> 
> Gene
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 10:29:09 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Halloween with the Monochrom
> 
> Maybe if I had a $40,000 monitor, it might make a difference, but the 
> number
> of jpg pixels just does not seem to justify the conclusion.....regardless 
> of
> monitor.....
> 
> Back the discussion of getting the original raw file and looking at that to
> make qualitative comments.......... 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 
> 
>> It looks good but it feels like I'm looking at a big of jacked up 
>> noise softening and not enough unsharp masking. In other words  a high 
>> mush factor.
> 
> apparently one man's mush = another man's lush tonality.
> or
> perhaps one man's monitor displays files significantly different from
> another


They look sharp, rich in tone with subtle whites and deep blacks
on my 17" MacBook Pro
and
on my two 23" Cinema Display

'tis all I'm say'n

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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