Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can avoid the colour ink by using a RIP like Imageprint. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>wrote: > Erwin has this statement here: > > "The Monochrom produces absolutely neutral monochrome tones. The separate > RGB values are identical when looked at in a post processing program. When > you take a M9 image file and transfer it to black and white there is always > a slight color cast. It is well-known that even the Epson 3800, when set to > bw-printing, will add slight amounts of color ink. One can safely claim > that the Monochrom is the only digital 35 mm camera that delivers pure > neutral tones, identical to the ones you get when using silver-halide > emulsions." > > If you take an M9 file, do whatever channel mixing suits you or what > Silver EFEX produces, and then change the file to a 16bit monochrome file, > there is no more RGB information and the M9 file winds up being as neutral > as the MM file. I don't know what he's thinking in that sentence. He must > be talking about files straight from the camera. > > The other stuff is fairly clear and seems straighforward. > > I would add that beyond the added detail and the better ISO/noise > relationship the separation of tones is much better in the MM files. In > fact, in normal shooting (not extreme enlargement or ISO) I would say that > is the main advantage of the files in my estimation. > > And as Tina mentioned, the psychological mindset that comes with knowing > that the camera can produce nothing except fine B&W files. > > Henning > > > > On 2012-09-03, at 3:09 AM, A. Lal wrote: > > > > > > http://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/camera/styled-8/M%20Monochrom.htmlhttp://www.imx.nl/photo/leica/camera/styled-8/M%20Monochrom.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >