Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The film presets and colour conversion options don't work, but there's a lot more to Silver Efex Pro; Leica includes SEP because in their opinion (and mine) it is the best digital B&W processing tool. Marty On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote: > John > > I find your comment about SilverEfex not owrking strange when I read this > on the Leica site: > > "Leica M Monochrom buyers also benefit from a free online download option > (available after registration of the camera) for the software packages; > Adobe? Photoshop? Lightroom? 4, a professional workflow solution and the > world's leading black-and-white image processing software Silver Efex > Pro?." > > Would they really be foolish enough to offer software that didn't work > with the camera? > > Gerry > > Gerry Walden > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or > +44 (0)797 287 7932 > www.gwpics.com > > On 16 May 2012, at 09:55, John McMaster wrote: > > > 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 > > ________________________________________ > > > > > > 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. > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >