[Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

It will work for many manipulations but not the film effects - took me a 
while to find the link in several long threads ;-)

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1880361&postcount=114

Seem to be very few MMs in the wild, less than half a dozen? So very little 
in the way of examples (no DNGs yet) or experience.....

john
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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



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....
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> john
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> Why do you think they give you a free copy of SilverEfex free of charge?  
> ;>)
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> Gerry
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> On 16 May 2012, at 09:24, Richard Man wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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