[Leica] IMG: B&W Images

[Don Dory]

You have to love the silver halide time machine.  In many ways a far better
archive system than very multiply redundant electronic storage.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:08 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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 à 03:01, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> a écrit :
> >
> > 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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