[Leica] I am still alive, thanks for asking

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Nice stuff, Geoff, but with the limitations of web display, you'll have to 
bring a few big prints along to Barcelona. Hopefully, circumstances will 
permit that I'll be there, otherwise you'll have to make a diversion to the 
Emerald Isle...

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2015 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] I am still alive, thanks for asking


> 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!*
>>
>>
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>
> Cheers
> Geoff
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