Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Tales of Two Auctions...
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Wed Aug 16 18:28:21 2006
References: <p06230921c10912f7535a@[131.142.12.152]> <C1093749.13DB5%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
 
2006-08-16-20:57:45 B. D. Colen:
> Thanks, Richard - Everything was shot RAW and then converted. The in-camera
> BW is excellent, but unfortunately it's jpg, and I want the flexibility RAW
> gives me.

So...  how do you get nice tonality?  Do you go through the Channel
Mixer, or via some other route?  If Channel Mixer, do you have a
standard ratio which seems to work most of the time, or do you tweak
per-image? 

I have to admit that much of the time I'm converting to grey, it's
because a low-light image looks like ass, having come out in
blue-channel-noise-related pimples.  So I throw out the blue, and
balance red and green 'til the result looks plausible.  But I don't feel
I have it down to a science yet.

 -Jeff
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