Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, I don't know if you ever convert your color digital images to B&W; but if you do, the Topaz B&W plugin is one of the best ways I have found to get good B&W from digital. Most conversions are too flat in the midtones, and simply increasing contrast means losing highlight and shadow detail. The Topaz software increases midtone contrast without losing highlight and shadow detail. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 https://chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio https://crawfordphotoschool.com Learn From Me ?On 8/4/22, 5:35 PM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory via LUG" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote: Many on this list have been quietly promoting Topaz labs products. SonC showed me what their products could do on a motion blurred image which convinced me of their value. I waited until there was a bundle sale and just acquired the bundle. So, money very well spent and now suggestions. The denoise works extremely well, owning 2.8, 3.5, or 5.6 lenses is not a limiting factor on newer cameras that go up over 50,000iso. The noise can be drastically reduced without sacrificing image detail. A little motion blur can also be worked with effectively. Basically, if a lens is good but slow you have a nice light package that will work in almost any light. This also makes the use of my M9 practical again as I have been fighting no dof in dark places to try to keep shutter speeds up. Now, the AI programs will mostly eliminate motion blur and I can get the dof I believe I want. So, thank you to all those on the list who have been suggesting better software. Also, I believe this will work on scanned film so with a convoluted work system you could shoot HP5, scan it in, de noise the grain, then output to a large format "negative" and contact print on real emulsions. -- Don don.dory at gmail.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information