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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Friday Flower
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 23:04:43 -0700
References: <64709320-5AF7-4CAA-81FD-D3AA4E9BAE18@acm.org> <45678576-51B8-48C6-B162-2694FFB6B7C8@icloud.com> <676508E2-09DD-441B-88E1-C812DA5DEA6F@acm.org> <5568EFC8.10708@lighttube.net>

Oops. Slip of the memory. My beloved M9 has been in New Jersey in the hands 
of Leica for several months, and I?ve been interchange.ably using the Lumix 
and the Fuji X100S. Just forgot in the heat of the moment which one took the 
bottle brush.

Actually, both of those excellent cameras piss me off. The Fuji because it?s 
menus are very complex and I?m sure the firmware has bugs. For example, the 
few times I?ve put it in macro mode and then back into normal mode, it it 
has gone nuts and I haf to do a reset followed by setting a fair number of 
non-default settings before it was a workable camera again in non-macro 
mode. The Lunix pisses me off because it a) does not have a view finder and 
b) will not stop down below f/8. They both, however have excellent lenses.

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




> On May 29, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> Herb,
> 
> I looked at your Exif data for the image, and it reports that it was made 
> with a Panasonic DMC-LX5.  How did the Fuji comment get involved?
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 5/29/2015 5:49 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>> Hi George,
>> 
>> I tried what you suggested. When I reduced red saturation enough to break 
>> up some of the solid central red, the periphery got a bit yellow, and 
>> playing with yellow parameters did not have much effect. I then started 
>> playing with magenta, which was a bit more successful, but I could not 
>> really resolve the central area without destroying the periphery. I 
>> thought at first I had an improved the  picture, but when I made a direct 
>> comparison between the original and the ?improved? version, I did not 
>> feel it was improved enough to be worth posting. I  think there were so 
>> many spines (petals?) that the central area just looked solid.
>> 
>> There is a possibility that some of this might be an artifact of the Fuji 
>> camera. An expert at the Keeble and Shuchat department told me that Fuji 
>> did not use the Bayer mosaic  but some proprietary array of their own. 
>> Makes me wonder what happens when LR analyzes the RAW data.
>> 
>> Herb
>> 
>> 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>> 
>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 29, 2015, at 9:13 AM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
>>> icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 29, 2015, at 12:34 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It?s not quite Friday here, but close enough.
>>>> 
>>>> A couple of years ago, our bottle brush had grown into an ugly tree and 
>>>> was cut back practically to the ground. It is finally in full bloom.
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010724.jpg.html 
>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010724.jpg.html>
>>> amazing specimen
>>> 
>>> I don't see any separation between the spines
>>> which can be corrected by reducing the red saturation
>>> there's generally more than enough "red" information
>>> to allow for reducing saturation
>>> improving resolution
>>> and still maintaining plenty of "red" color
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>>> 
>>> http://www.imagist.com
>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>> 
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