Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 10, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > George Lottermoser OFFERED": > Subject: [Leica] IMGs: For love of the black and white photography of > Edward > Weston, Minor White and W. Eugene Smith > > <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=9177> > > Hi George, > Your examples are quite surprising and had me saying to myself..."They look > like prints from B&W film!" Compared to a digital colour capture converted > to B&W! > > A digital Colour to digital B&W print I don't think I've ever seen the > qualities we see in your images. Quite obviously a true B&W image and not a > re-make of colour to B&W? > > You sure yer not fooling us and shot these on B&W film? ;-) ;-) There is a > smoothness throughout the B&W images that most obviously illustrates a B&W > image as though from B&W film? Now if I only had $14.== $15 thousand for a > couple of these magical machines I'd get right on shooting the final book > completing my trilogy on the Medical profession! Oh well lottery tickets in > my pocket! :-) Maybe this week will bring me a big time winning amount.:-) > > > Thanks for shooting and posting the subjects you did, as they surely > illustrate the beauty of this new LEICA B&W camera. Thank you for taking the time to look and comment Ted. You don't need $14K You don't need two of them. One sold on the 'bay last week for $4,600. If extraordinary Black and White digital capability calls to you? you owe it to yourself to pick up a used M Monochrom. Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist