Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:56 AM, philippe.amard wrote: > Thanks Ric, > > don't take it as (negative) criticism, please, it is not. i did not, thanks > > To illustrate what I meant, I was at an old friend's last night recording > the voice for a slidehow, and he showed me photos of course, some taken > with a D200, some with his new D700. > There is a difference of course. It can't be the lenses, he's using the > same. But the colours are consistent between digital bodies. And more > surprising, with the slides he'd shot with an F5, F3, back to Minolta SRT > 101. > > In your case, the film photos were consistent as a group. > The M8 ones are as a group. > I simply noticed - maybe I'm this is where I'm wrong - that the two groups > have a different colour rendition; hence my questions. > > So have your tastes and adjustments changed? > Or are there two Leica colour signatures? > Both? my tastes change daily, but the biggest thing may have been the digital switch. At the same time i added the m8, i added lightroom as my main tool for photo handling. previously, i was dependent on film scans, an additional step for variation to occur. > > I would tend to think that the second option is the answer, from what I > see of Steve's and Geoff's M9 photos, the colour rendition is different. > Sort of New Leica inside, using the same lenses. > Yet you're using an M8, and from there arises the other part of my > questionning, i.e. how you get this M9 look from an M8, which I had not > noticed when viewing other luggers' posts. it is much the same senor is it not? just a section out of the middle of it. i don;t know what i'm doing, but i'm having fun--usually thanks again ric > > This is not really about technique, nor philosophy; your results exceed > what I had expected from an M8 thus far, really. That's all, but that's a > lot.