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Subject: [Leica] IMG: B&W Images
From: photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 06:08:35 +0100
References: <030a2dbc-04ab-9c8d-5de3-2096cafc5814@lighttube.net> <CAH1UNJ2af24U7FKCizJzNedc8_nOB-vsq5V_y+TnWz23tjG6BQ@mail.gmail.com> <04D3DE8C-5283-44CB-904F-99C66415BDDD@lighttube.net>

I also remember the smell when opening these metal boxes.

Nothing compares to it, even the fastest SD cards :-)

Amities

Philippe



> Le 5 mars 2019 ? 03:01, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> a ?crit :
> 
> Well, it was 1952, and I did, at times, buy 35mm motion picture film in 
> 100 ft lengths.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2019, at 7:19 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Nice result, but to my eyes it still looks like a 1950s film output....
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 12:03 AM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> After reading Tina and Lluis' discussion of B&W image processing, I
>>> pulled up one of my first and favorite Leica images and reprocessed it.
>>> This was camera shop processing, from 1952, and had some scratches and
>>> flaws.  I used Neat Image to clean it up without losing detail, Focus
>>> Magic Level 1 to sharpen slightly, Photoshop tools to remove some
>>> imperfections, and then Silver Efex Pro 2.0 for final adjustments.
>>> 
>>> You are both right.  The tools available for B&W are very limited when
>>> compared to color images.
>>> 
>>> This is my favorite shot of my late wife, at age 20, in 1952.
>>> 
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070706-Donna+02+52.JPG.html
>>> 
>>> Leica IIIa, Coated Elmar 50/3.5, Kodak Plus-X
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> 
>>> 
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