Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/05

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Subject: [Leica] Fuji XE-1
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:29:02 -0400

Again its like saying "this film is so good I'm going to forget my darkroom
and just let Walgreens run it"

And if you're "film" is that good then its all the more reason to do it
yourself.


On 6/5/13 5:27 PM, "leo wesson" <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just looked at an X1 pro, didn't like it.  I could never get use to the
> viewfinder and the fact that you can't see what is focused, it's just plain
> glass.  I have to have groundglass or a split image.
> 
> Leo Wesson
> Photographer/Videographer
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> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:51 AM, FRANK DERNIE
> <frank.dernie at btinternet.com>wrote:
> 
>> Lets not forget we are talking about Fuji here, they know quite a lot
>> about imaging...
>> 
>> 
>> I am shooting jpeg and raw on my X-Pro-1. The default Adobe chose for
>> Lightroom (and presumably Photoshop) in their raw converter is not as good
>> as Fuji have chosen for the camera. It may be one day, but it ain't yet.
>> Also, Fuji include an in camera raw to jpeg conversion which is a bit
>> clunky but better than Adobe have managed so far.
>> Also lets not forget that jpegs, despite being a lossy compression,
>> contain far more data than any printer so far invented can print.
>> 
>> I keep my raw files for archival reasons, just like my negatives, and in
>> case I want to modify them before printing. The Fuji jpegs give excellent
>> prints. They also offer the emulation of the look of some of the Fuji
>> films, but I haven't tried one of those yet!
>> 
>> FD
>> 
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