Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/01

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Subject: [Leica] Digital M futures
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Tue Nov 1 14:43:54 2005
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At 01:21 PM 11/1/2005, Adam Bridge wrote:

>No arguments from me on this one - although I suspect that a lot of
>that can be done in software and the physics of digital capture vs
>silver make this less likely.

Not sure about the "done in software" part. Yes, I am aware of things like 
www.silveroxide.com that mimics the traditional film look, but that's 
referring more to the grain pattern. I think fundamentally the sensor is a 
linear response device so while you can adjust curve etc., it ain't the 
same....

Of course, I could be very wrong on this...

>I can see the conversations now: well, I set TriX but then I
>postprocess for 15 seconds in Photoshop XTOL then 30 seconds of buffer
>with a wash of pixel-magic.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com)
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