Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John I find your comment about SilverEfex not owrking strange when I read this on the Leica site: "Leica M Monochrom buyers also benefit from a free online download option (available after registration of the camera) for the software packages; Adobe? Photoshop? Lightroom? 4, a professional workflow solution and the world's leading black-and-white image processing software Silver Efex Pro?." Would they really be foolish enough to offer software that didn't work with the camera? Gerry Gerry Walden +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or +44 (0)797 287 7932 www.gwpics.com On 16 May 2012, at 09:55, John McMaster wrote: > On further reading (I posted Jono's link on Friday) it seems that the > various film effects in Silver Efex do not work on the MM. I have to say > that I have never got my B&W conversions to look similar to film (and I > have never been happy with them) usually missing subtle gradation.... > > john > ________________________________________ > > > Why do you think they give you a free copy of SilverEfex free of charge? > ;>) > > Gerry > > > On 16 May 2012, at 09:24, Richard Man wrote: > >> For some reasons, when I heard about the Leica MM, for no logical reasons >> at all, I was imagining that the images would look like Tri-X, or other >> great B&W film, just shot in ISO 100,000 or whatever. >> >> Well, no, they look like digital images converted to B&W: >> http://www.slack.co.uk/slack/henri_images.html >> >> Yes, I know one can convert and process and plug-in to make anything looks >> like any old film, but it just jolted me a little on how stupid my >> assumption was. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information