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

[Robert Adler]

Great fun. My favorite is Fistish Pumpish; really captures the feeling of
the event. I don't find the background distracting at all, though normally
I would. Well shot!
Best,
Bob, who currently agrees with your prediction :-)

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 6:03 PM Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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