[Leica] IMG: B&W Images

[Philippe]

What I say is about my youth. I think I’ve grown somewhat wiser now, and don’t shoot for fame or legacy ;-)
Or even ready money...

Shall we call it pleasure? :-)

Amities

Here and now Philippe



> Le 5 mars 2019 à 07:39, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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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