Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Boats is beautiful. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 29-okt-06, om 01:25 heeft MARK DAVISON het volgende geschreven: > I also had an opportunity to shoot the M8 for a few hours at > Rockport. My impressions mostly follow Richard's. A few > additional comments: > > I have been using Lightroom beta 4 for processing groups of > photographs. I found I had to do a lot of tweaking with the DNG > files coming from the M8, but they do look nice after some work. > When I shot DNG + JPG, the JPGs look quite good, so Lightroom > really is not respecting the in camera processing settings. I did > not have the Leica provided Capture One converter available to me. > > I tried using manual exposure on a cold morning, and my stiff > finger kept hitting the on-off switch and turning the camera off > when I was trying to set the shutter speed. > > Samples can be found at > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/MarkEDavison/Rockport+M8+samples/ > > These are all jpgs produced from DNG originals via Adobe > Lightroom. In a few cases I had to do further compression via > Photoshop CS2 to come in under the 5 MB limit. The panorama was > quickly stitched together in Photoshop--there are a few stitching > glitches remaining. > > Overall I find the M8 a marvelous camera. It is tuned towards very > high resolution rather than noise suppression. The color and > dynamic range available from the DNG files is very good, but there > is a tendency towards overly magenta shadows in skin tones that I > found hard to take out with Lightroom beta 4. I've got an M8 on > order. > > Mark Davison > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >