[Leica] I am still alive, thanks for asking

[Geoff Hopkinson]

Oh I love BW too, Mark, just not ONLY BW. Most of my (studio)
photography is with the S system these days and my M stuff is largely
languishing.

http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157540738

http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157417580

http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/159203426

http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157890340

http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/159324323

On the M246 files, a very smart software guy I read says the files are
plain vanilla DNGs (1.3 I think). So I don't know what the issues are
with the Mac programs. I guess it is because there is no demosaicing
going on, no RGB RGB etc. No doubt Apple will catch up.


Howard I am amazed at the prices for the print encyclopaedia. See if
you can convert them to a camera! then there is Goggle for the rest
;-)


.............................................

You need to shot some black and white Hoppy! More people will know you're
alive! For the real important stuff!


On 5/1/15 6:49 AM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

>* Well, thank goodness! About you, not the M246 file problems.*

I am a B&W kind
>* of guy, though as a retiree I?m not sure I could have justified the*
>* un-budgeted expense. Serendipitously, my son just informed me that the last*
>* print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which I impulsively bought a*
>* set of a couple of years ago, now sells on the secondary market, like *
>* Amazon*
>* and eBay, to collectors for 5-6 times what it cost new?just about the *
>* price of*
>* the M246! If I could sell mine for that, it would be an un-budgeted *
>* windfall*
>* There?s a nice symmetry there?*

?howard


>* On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:01 PM,*
>* Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:*
>
>* Phenomenal low-light*
>* performance at ISO 6400?much better than the MM and*
>* just blows away the*
>* M240. As he points out, it could be a real boon for*
>* f/16,*
>* 1/2000-and-be-there daytime street photography as well as available*
>* dark.*
>
>
>* And BTW, where?s Hoppy been recently? My LUG mail has nothing from him in>*
>* the last month. Did I miss something in one or another of my weeks away *
>* from*
>
>* keyboard?*
>
>* ?howard*
>
>* Hi Howard, still alive and kicking here in Aus. I*
>* just turned off my*
>* LUG mail for a spell. Sort of like Facebook as a timesuck*
>* ;-) I take a*
>* peek at the LUG archives from time to time in case I missed*
>* some news*
>* from friends or whatever.*
>* The initial reports on that new*
>* Monochrom certainly sound impressive*
>* for BW kind of guys. I need my colour*
>* personally!I did read from Jono*
>* Slack I think that the new DNG files from*
>* the M246 result in major*
>* problems in some of the Mac applications currently.*
>* Photo drives me*
>* crazy anyway!*
>
>
>* _______________________________________________*
>* Leica Users Group.*
>* See*
>* http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug <http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> for more*
>* information*


_______________________________________________
Leica Users
>* Group.*
See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information




-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photographerhttp://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman