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

[Jeff Moore]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:
>
> Looks like a fun shoot with great people.

It was that!  Thanks for looking!

> Looks like a west coast vibe; even Austin public radio is a bit more
buttoned down.

For sure, WFMU <https://wfmu.org/> is not a place you'd describe as
buttoned-down.  It's east-coast, though: Jersey City, NJ.  First went on
the air in 1958, originally a part of a now-failed college, bought the
license from the school just before said institution sank beneath the
waves, independent and listener-sponsored for the 30-plus years since then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMU

Oh, and... I'm a complete dilettante, unable to handle the responsibility
of a real weekly DJ shift, but I occasionally swan in and do a show:

https://wfmu.org/playlists/JX

>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 8:03 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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