Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/10

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Composing in B&W
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:03:09 -0600
References: <52A62A0E.3000004@lighttube.net> <CAFA4jDJthQ0TZ64jPk17nB9uv0PTXBVeTDCMPPPigsWVvBbMpg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, Jeffery.  I can't speak for the movie makers, but I would not be 
surprised.  Seems that I read somewhere that the filter was purple.  
Either would do, I suppose.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/10/2013 7:59 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Can't argue with the results. They look great.
>
> Didn't movie directors view scenes through a green handheld viewfinder to
> give them a monochrome sense of the results?
>
> Jeffery
>
> On Monday, December 9, 2013, Jim Nichols wrote:
>
>> With all of the recent discussion of B&W images on the LUG, I decided to
>> see if changing the EVF and LCD to B&W helped in creating B&W images.  
>> With
>> a Summitar from the 1940s on the X-E1, this seemed appropriate.
>>
>> These two images were composed in B&W, then processed from the RAW image
>> and converted to B&W.  I liked the result.  Maybe the B&W finder does
>> improve "seeing" the final image.
>>
>> Mirror:  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mirror.jpg.html
>>
>> Lamp:  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Lamp.jpg.html
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> --
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
>>
>>
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