Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do NOT, repeat NOT, ever use that Mode-Grayscale to do your conversions. Either purchase one of the commercially available Photoshop plug-ins, such as BW Pro from www.fredmiranda.com , or go over to the PS actions menu, and you'll see a convert action that uses the channel mixer. You will get MUCH better results going that route, much more 'realistic' contrast and tones. Then, after you've done the conversion, go to the filter menu, open the Unsharpen mask, and it it - roughly - for about 15% and 65 pixels, with the bottom setting at 1. You'll see that without apparently sharpening the image, it will give the contrast a good snap, and you will have an even more film-like image. Best B. D. -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Philippe Orlent Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:11 PM To: Leica-Users Subject: Re: [Leica] My first Leica shots It was shot in color at full automode: a nicely balanced and neutral result (tending to underexposure of about 1/2 to 1 stop, which I luckily prefer) came out. "Development" pushing, conversion to grayscale, grain and some other hankypanky was done in Photoshop. I will test the camera's B/W mode probably tomorrow. Meanwhile I can already tell it is a pleasure to hold a (point and shoot) digicam that doesn't feel like a toy, that has "analog" controls and practical menus accessible whilst shooting (f.i. EV). Buffertime can be shortened with Sandisk Ultra II (or similar) SD cards, but it still takes about 4 seconds. --- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:32:59 -0500 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] My first Leica shots > > Nice. How did you do the black and white conversion? Was it straight > Mode-grayscale? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Aaron > Sandler > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:26 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] My first Leica shots > > > Philippe, > > May I suggest that you repost these without all of the extra framing > around them? > > By the time my browser automatically resizes the images to fit on my > screen, the actual photos are very small! > > Best wishes, > Aaron > > At 03:00 PM 3/17/2004, you wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been following the LUG (and its sometimes lively discussions) >> for about a week now, and I'd like to show you the first pics I made >> with the red dotted beauty I just got yesterday. Be warned though: >> it's a Digilux 2... ;) >> >> http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/L1000013.jpg >> http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/L1000021.jpg >> >> I really would appreciate to hear what you think about them. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Philippe A. Orlent > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html