Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was surprised that Leica provided a test image of the M9M with an orange filter. I expected that the digital sensor would respond to filtration differently than film. Maybe even requiring new filters to be developed/used that did what the old Wratten series Y2, Or, K25 etc...... sort of a look up table approach to digital Monochrome filtration..... Maybe at this stage, we still don't know.....?????? Has anyone seen some filtration comments on the M9m?. Clearly that at the time of exposure, whatever you capture on "film" is all you can work with later post processing. So filtering to increase contrast selectively ( for example ) per color is not available during PP?????? Examples of what I was thinking: Increase the sky contrast to pop the clouds: change the contrast of foliage relative to rocks of the same (otherwise) exposure value: Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net For some reasons, when I heard about the Leica MM, for no logical reasons at all, I was imagining that the images would look like Tri-X, or other great B&W film, just shot in ISO 100,000 or whatever. Well, no, they look like digital images converted to B&W: http://www.slack.co.uk/slack/henri_images.html