Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/04

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Converted M9 and 75/1.4
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:49:19 +1000
References: <CA+yJO1AGswfTQWGBhAZgY+EfddjcLsC+q-qmtntYhji=TMZ4FA@mail.gmail.com> <CC92DFED.245D3%mark@rabinergroup.com> <CABmfTOVVExvN+wL67GAm6G8bnOd_1f6-oXNsO8tuEuML=ag8Ww@mail.gmail.com> <EC94D254-F346-439C-90CF-10F5D5A2910F@me.com>

Gerry the definitive solution is available. Open a DNG from the MM at 100%
resolution on a good monitor.
...There now it's only an extra few thousand you have to find somewhere ;-)
Like those state of the art lenses, you don't *need* that extra quality
but....

Cheers,
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman



On 4 October 2012 21:19, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:

> Do you know, I may be talking total Leica heresy here but I really don't
> see the point of the Monochrom. It seems to me that any .dng image from it
> is going to need as much post-processing as a 'normal' colour .dng from
> (say) the M9 converted to monochrome.
>
> OK, they are now coming to put on the funny jacket and take me to a 'place
> of safety' for my own good.
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
> +44 (0)797 287 7932
> www.gwpics.com
>
> On 4 Oct 2012, at 11:47, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That, to me, looks like an MM shot taken as a DNG and converted in
> > Lightroom or PS without any manipulation.  If you shoot .jpgs in the
> > camera they come out looking quite different to this.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> >> How did you manage to neutralize all your cameras settings?
> >> As I know when you shoot a jpeg there are all kinds of settings.
> >> And it looks like what you've got set here is ultra low contrast.
> >> Not sure what see can tell by seeing such an image.
> >> I'd do your normal routine with it. Show us that.
> >>
> >> Mark William Rabiner
> >> Photography
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:14:33 -0400
> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Converted M9 and 75/1.4
> >>>
> >>> Because this is what they look like straight out of the camera:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.pbase.com/image/146449509
> >>>
> >>> Too flat for me but necessary if you are going to have all of the tones
> >>> there to do what you want with them.  Silver Efex software comes with
> the
> >>> MM. I like the effects of Silver Efex and also Exposure 3 which I
> already
> >>> had.
> >>>
> >>> Tina
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at 
> >>> gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I may have missed something or am confused (more likely): Do you run
> the MM
> >>>> images through Silver Efex Pro?  If so, why?
> >>>>
> >>>> --Bob
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> --
> >>> Tina Manley, ASMP
> >>> www.tinamanley.com
> >>>
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