Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/16

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Subject: [Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:55:55 +0000
References: <CAF8hL-HMQJAf+-BRWJST7YenJq5teiAJkRo5p=S-vFBYOSn97A@mail.gmail.com>, <AED86EDD-55DF-40AB-8EBD-F1DE54976001@me.com>

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....

john
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Why do you think they give you a free copy of SilverEfex free of charge?  ;>)

Gerry


On 16 May 2012, at 09:24, Richard Man wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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