[Leica] IMG: B&W Images

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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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