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

[Jeff Moore]

Thanks, Bob — for the kind words, for looking, and as always just for
taking the time to comment!


On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 14:11 Robert Adler via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> 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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