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Subject: [Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 19:14:08 +0930
References: <CAF8hL-HMQJAf+-BRWJST7YenJq5teiAJkRo5p=S-vFBYOSn97A@mail.gmail.com> <AED86EDD-55DF-40AB-8EBD-F1DE54976001@me.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E96C37AD07@WHIZZMAIL02.whizz.org> <0C4DC67C-3A48-465C-B069-E9F6AB325D58@me.com>

The film presets and colour conversion options don't work, but there's a
lot more to Silver Efex Pro; Leica includes SEP because in their opinion
(and mine) it is the best digital B&W processing tool.

Marty


On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >
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