[Leica] I am still alive, thanks for asking

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Very nice. I find this one especially beguiling:

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

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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!*
> >
> >
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> Mark William Rabiner
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>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
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