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Subject: [Leica] First Official M(240) shots?
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:10:26 +1000
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My calibrated monitor can display almost all of Adobe RGB and these look
fine to me colour wise here in my environment set up for printing. If I use
an sRGB simulation profile which also has luminance much higher they look
quite different as expected.. The wedding ones seem to be from the M. We
don't know anything about the camera settings beyond the exposure values
nor the  post processing of course but the exposure values applied look
pretty intelligent for the scene to me. I like that all of the
highlights/whites contain detail and there's a tonal range right down to
000. There's maybe a stop of remaining room in those highlights if needed.
Were I the wedding photog I'd be pretty happy with these for printing. Did
you notice that the photog processed them in CS3 too? No optimised profile
for its rendition as yet either of course.
I think that these are an encouraging preview peek. Bring on the cameras.

*If you want to take more interesting pictures,
stand in front of more interesting stuff* -- Joe McNally

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


On 23 January 2013 14:21, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> OK, just had a quick look at home and I think....... Leica are having a
> laugh!
>
> Lots of comments on LUF about colours and the like, all the images (M and
> M9) I looked at are in Adobe RGB colour space and look much better once in
> sRGB!!
>
> john
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > http://blog.leica-camera.com/photography/m-system/back-to-kyrgyzstan-a-
> > photographic-journey-with-jean-gaumy/
> >
> > john - on an un-calibrated monitor at work
> >
>
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