[Leica] I'm a Leica owner again

[Wayne Torry]

Never mind. I looked up the Q2.
Margie is a keeper!
Enjoy!

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:09 PM Wayne Torry <papatorry46 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Aram,
> Forgive me for I am old.
> What is a Q2?
> Did Y’all redo the kitchen in the van?
> Mark your calendar! After a mild winter, the flowers on the Parkway in the
> vicinity of Milepost 240, + or- were gorgeous. We’re still only 5 miles
> from the Parkway in NW North Carolina. Where it’s tobacco planting time.
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 1:55 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
>> My wife got me an early birthday present, a nice spanking new Q2.  Wow.
>> Even the box it comes in is a work of art with drawers and magnetic flaps
>> and everything packed in cloth bags.  Amazing.  So, my first photo was of
>> her.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Breakfast-1.jpg.html
>>
>> Funny thing though.  The photo looks nice and color balanced on my
>> monitor
>> in LR, but when I export the jpeg, it looks like the above, very warm and
>> dark for some reason.  I have notice the darker jpegs before, but never
>> the
>> drastic color shift.
>>
>> So, here it is in B&W.  No color shift here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Breakfast-1-2.jpg.html
>>
>> I know the focus is wrong.  Missed the face.  For some reason I cannot
>> get
>> the face recognition to work.  I will have to research that a bit.
>>
>> And technically, I still do own an R8, but it has seen two rolls of film
>> through it in the last 10 years.  I hope to do better with the R8.
>>
>> Aram
>>
>>
>> Aram Langhans
>> (Semi) Retired Science Teacher
>> & Unemployed photographer
>>
>> “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
>> himself
>> would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
>>
>>
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