[Leica] Alternative to the Monochrom

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

You go John!

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:54 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:

> So by that thought process none of your film cameras were any use for B&W?
>
> ;-) john
> ________________________________________
>
> So now dumb-ass question? Do all these super hot shot new B&W LEICA'S do
> that for their multi thousands of dollars? Show you the world before you in
> B&W?? Or do they just show you nothing more than the same old crap.... "The
> world in colour...... but captures the image in B&W????????  BIG DEAL AND
> FOR HOW MANY THOUSANDS??????"
>
> Or through the view finder you view our natural colour world... but on the
> back screen you have a black & white image???????
>
> If it doesn't let you see in B&W through the view finder? Heck why waste
> your money buying one of those when just a few hundred dollars you can have
> a magical machine that allows you to see your photo as  a pure
> B&W............. BEFORE YOU GO CLICK!
>
> SO BIG DEAL ON ANY MONO LEICA! Heck it doesn't allow you to see how your
> potentially beautiful B&W shot looks before you go CLICK!!  I think there
> might be a few interesting responses on this???????
>
> cheers,
> Dr. ted :-) :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of
> Mark Rabiner
> Sent: September-19-14 6:31 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternative to the Monochrom
>
> It just doest come any dumber than this.
>
> I think the purpose of the article is not to make an intelligent point but
> simply to drum up some attention
>
> We need to get smarter and ignore such stuff. But here I am typing away!
>
> The idea is that because you can shoot black and white jpegs with consumer
> quality cropped color fuji camera which can be in black and white mode and
> since the fuji camera has a rangefinder in it than it is a replacement or
> alternative for a Leica Monochrome. A camera which makes monochrome raw
> files from a monochrome sensor.
> In other words a consumer grade cropped color sensor replaces a full frame
> Monochrom sensor professional grade sensor.
>
> One could say that nothing makes any difference no matter what you do. Its
> all a big giggle.
>
> I see the title of the article is " The Fuji Monochrom"
> The problem being that its a color camera.
>
> One can always sell ones Leica M for a very nice Pentax Spotmatic and use
> the extra many to take a short vacation but have we "replaced" our M?
> It implication is that we are using the word to say the cameras are mainly
> interchangeable. Whatever a Leica M can so so could a Spotmatic pretty much
> just as well.
> And I think Leica users and most of the rest of the world knows that that's
> not likely the case.
>
> Its like how the word "backup" gets used.
>
>
> .
>
>
>
> On 9/19/14 10:30 AM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I see a huge difference in the files from my Monochrom and the color
> > files
> from the M240 converted to B&W.
>
> Tina
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:25 AM,
> > George Lottermoser <
> george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> > The Fuji cameras
> > obviously deliver beautiful digital files; at an
> > extremely affordable price
> > when compared to the Leicas which they emulate.
> > And essentially this article
> > says, "here's a nice camera, that looks almost
> > just like a leica, which can
> > turn it's RGB files into Grayscale files (just
> > like every other digital
> > camera available).
> >
> > Of course the same points could be made for my M8, and
> > M; or the M9, M-E;
> > or if you let go of the range finder < any mirror-less
> > camera on the market.
> >
> > a note off the iPad, George
> >
> > On Sep 19, 2014, at
> > 6:54 AM, Douglas Nygren via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Attached
> > is a link to an article describing using the Fuji X100s to do
> > black and
> > white photograph.
> > >
> > > Given the high cost of the Monochrom, this may be a
> > good alternative.
> > X100S is a camera Leica should have made, but didn't.
> >
> > >
> > > I look forward to reading your comments.
> > > Doug
> > >
> > > The Fuji
> > Monochrom By James Conley
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Fuji Monochrom By James Conley
> >
> > > The Fuji Monochrom By James Conley A major impediment most new
> >
> > photographers face is that color is the default mode of expression. Not
> > only
> > are we inundated by ...
> > > View on www.stevehuffphoto.com Preview by
> > Yahoo
> >
>
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