[Leica] WFMU Marathon, mostly in delicious Leica Monochrom-vision

[Jeff Moore]

Hey, kids!

As has been my wont for quite a few years now, I haunted this most recent
WFMU <https://wfmu.org/> Fundraising Marathon with cameras, on the lookout
for pleasing and/or interesting photos of the beautiful people who keep the
world's finest radio station going.

Leica content for the LUG: every day I went in this time, my primary camera
was the Q3 Monochrom (whose release I'd been craving for years, and my copy
of which finally arrived just in time for this event!).  My
secondary camera was, depending on the day, either an SL3 or a Fuji
GFX100 II.

In most cases, to keep the look of the gallery consistent, I converted the
photos from whichever (color) second camera I'd been using to B&W... with
just a few full-color pictures sneaking through when I thought the color
actually added something.

This editing exercise was really educational: it ain't funny just how much
I prefer the character of the natively-monochrome, never-seen-a-Bayer-array
DNGs when I'm deep in the pixel-level detail of these.  The monochrome
images from the color cameras just got kind of... mealy at the pixel level,
while the Monochrom images stayed beautifully coherent.  Using the
medium-format GFX almost but still not quite made up for losses from
shooting in color.

Boy, would I like a monochrome-sensor GFX body!
Or an SL3 one would also be very welcome.
I'll totally buy whichever of those hits the market first, whether I can
actually afford it or not.

But anyway.  Here's my album of photos from the 2026 WFMU Marathon:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/albums/72177720332304828

If you want to see these at their best, sit down at the desktop computer
with your most enormous monitor, fill as much of the screen as possible
with a web browser (extra points for full screen mode), and start here, in
Flickr's Lightbox mode
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/55124217021/in/album-72177720332304828/lightbox/>.
Then you can use your keyboard's right-arrow key to page through the photos
in sequence.

Enjoy!

Monochrom is the Future.

-Jeff