Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Thanks for your response, one of the things I've thought is what a B&W shots could be shoot Tina in Guatemala or Honduras in the dark houses, with the women cooking... , yes, I understand you and I think you will do a great use of it, your words about the dark houses in Central America was sound really attractive for me and wake up my imagination.. Italy? WOW! is a wonderful country for shooting B&W... I can't wait your next pictures. Saludos Lluis El 03/09/2012, a las 0:33, Tina Manley escribi?: > Hi, Lluis - > > I understand what you are saying. The differences are there but are > slight > - except at the higher ISOs where the MM really makes a difference. > > The main difference to me is mental. I know I am carrying a color > and a > B&W camera and use each one differently. It would have been much > cheaper > to use 2 M8s - a chrome and a black one - and designate one as my > color > camera and one as my B&W camera and just not look at the LCD!! > > I wish I could go back to those dark houses in Central America with > the MM > instead of my film cameras! I don't know that I will be > photographing that > much in low-light situations, but it will be interesting to see how > much I > depend on the MM and how much I use the M9 on my coming trip to Italy. > Here around the farm, I am finding more and more uses for B&W ;-) > > Tina > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at > gmail.com > >wrote: > >> Tina, >> >> First at all thanks for post this, for all of us is much more >> useful your >> test than the pictures with advertising or promotional purposes. >> >> In my first look, I principally apreciate that the pictures with >> the M9 >> are more flat, I think in English the LUG says "washed out", MM is >> more >> rich and contrasted, also more rich in shadows and higjlights >> detail, in >> other words, better Density Range, MM looks more sharp. >> >> My self question is once you have work in either I think that these >> differences will become less noticiables, except in sharpness and >> using >> high ISO. >> >> Please don't be worried if I ask myself it it pays the the >> money..., IMHO >> I think we would see more difference comparing MM/film or M9/film, >> I know, >> these are two different things and the actual trends seems that are >> going >> to the digital way, much more comfortable to use, but myself I >> can't avoid >> my personnal point of view considering that is not easy afford such >> camera. >> >> Very interesting effort, thank you again Tina >> >> Saludos >> Lluis >> >> >> >> El 03/09/2012, a las 0:02, Tina Manley escribi?: >> >> PESO: >>> >>> I put up some comparisons shot with the MM and M9. All used the >>> same >>> lenses (mostly 90/2.0) and same exposures - usually 320 ISO. I used >>> Silver >>> Efex Pro to convert the M9 ones to B&W using the Neutral choice. >>> No noise >>> removal or sharpening. Auto Exposure in LR4 on each one. >>> >>> I can definitely tell the difference in the raw files. I'm not >>> sure what >>> you can tell from small jpegs but here they are: >>> >>> http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/145788353<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/145788353 >>> >>> > >>> >>> and the next 7. >>> >>> C&C greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Tina >>> >>> -- >>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>> www.tinamanley.com >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See >>> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >>> >>> >for more information >>> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >> >for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information