Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh I love BW too, Mark, just not ONLY BW. Most of my (studio) photography is with the S system these days and my M stuff is largely languishing. http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157540738 http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157417580 http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/159203426 http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/157890340 http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/159324323 On the M246 files, a very smart software guy I read says the files are plain vanilla DNGs (1.3 I think). So I don't know what the issues are with the Mac programs. I guess it is because there is no demosaicing going on, no RGB RGB etc. No doubt Apple will catch up. Howard I am amazed at the prices for the print encyclopaedia. See if you can convert them to a camera! then there is Goggle for the rest ;-) ............................................. You need to shot some black and white Hoppy! More people will know you're alive! For the real important stuff! On 5/1/15 6:49 AM, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: >* Well, thank goodness! About you, not the M246 file problems.* I am a B&W kind >* of guy, though as a retiree I?m not sure I could have justified the* >* un-budgeted expense. Serendipitously, my son just informed me that the >last* >* print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which I impulsively bought >a* >* set of a couple of years ago, now sells on the secondary market, like * >* Amazon* >* and eBay, to collectors for 5-6 times what it cost new?just about the * >* price of* >* the M246! If I could sell mine for that, it would be an un-budgeted * >* windfall* >* There?s a nice symmetry there?* ?howard >* On Apr 30, 2015, at 11:01 PM,* >* Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote:* > >* Phenomenal low-light* >* performance at ISO 6400?much better than the MM and* >* just blows away the* >* M240. As he points out, it could be a real boon for* >* f/16,* >* 1/2000-and-be-there daytime street photography as well as available* >* dark.* > > >* And BTW, where?s Hoppy been recently? My LUG mail has nothing from him >in>* >* the last month. Did I miss something in one or another of my weeks away * >* from* > >* keyboard?* > >* ?howard* > >* Hi Howard, still alive and kicking here in Aus. I* >* just turned off my* >* LUG mail for a spell. Sort of like Facebook as a timesuck* >* ;-) I take a* >* peek at the LUG archives from time to time in case I missed* >* some news* >* from friends or whatever.* >* The initial reports on that new* >* Monochrom certainly sound impressive* >* for BW kind of guys. I need my colour* >* personally!I did read from Jono* >* Slack I think that the new DNG files from* >* the M246 result in major* >* problems in some of the Mac applications currently.* >* Photo drives me* >* crazy anyway!* > > >* _______________________________________________* >* Leica Users Group.* >* See* >* http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug ><http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug> for more* >* information* _______________________________________________ Leica Users >* Group.* See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographerhttp://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman