Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] MM - first impressions
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:55:00 -0400
References: <mailman.308.1346342461.1186.lug@leica-users.org> <CC650F2A.129E9%manolito@videotron.ca>

What can I say?  B&W affects me in a way that color doesn't.  It's all
about the light.

Tina

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM, EPL <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Correct me if I am mistaken, but this M Monochrome thing will capture
> images
> in, er, black and white? Like, basically, fifty shades of grey? Grey? The
> colour of age and Death?
>
> This isn't like the second coming of Velvia. Now that was something. That
> was, like, a kandy-colored tangerine-flake streamline babe. Nice bright
> colours. Dreams of summer. Kodachrome on juice.
>
> I always thought that Ansel Adams was a wanker for depicting landscapes in
> b&w. Like he was imposing humanity's morbid gloom on God's great glory.
>
> The painters at Lascaux used every colour they could see and could
> reproduce. No monochrome. Because they didn't go to school or imagine they
> knew better.
>
> Emanuel
>
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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