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

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Subject: [Leica] MM - first impressions
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:32:51 -0400

You can see A. Adams color work at least a whole book on it its not that
memorable.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Emanuel Lowi <manolito at videotron.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:38:02 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions
> 
> 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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