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« Reply #680 on: January 15, 2013, 03:08:05 AM » |
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Hi, Regarding sharpness, it is my guess that you may have missed focus. Try to do some focus bracketing, I do it always in my testing unless I can use live view. On the colors, when you do repro it is about reproducing color. In repro yo would try to stay close to original. It is a good idea to include a color checker in any test shot, makes it easy to assert that color balance is right, exposure not clipped and also is helpful in getting equivalent tona scales. Best regards Erik Eric. All valid points. I was limited by my room light. Tomorrow I will do a test under day light with the lens stopped down.
Although the Hassey was properly focused. I was surprised at the result so I re did the shot many times at different focal lenghts (from 1.5-2M), and the image I posted was the accurate focus. Mirror was locked up as well
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« Reply #682 on: January 16, 2013, 11:55:27 AM » |
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Thanks Juan ~ that's very beautiful!
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« Reply #683 on: January 16, 2013, 07:00:40 PM » |
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Stunning, Juan. I wonder if anyone will see banding in the sky.  |
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« Reply #684 on: January 17, 2013, 01:45:37 AM » |
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Hello, DP2 Merrill, 800 ISO and 500 ISO (car), B&W JPEG out of the camera, just some curve adjustments. This is a backstage of a fashion Show I covered and the DP2M with Auto ISO in B&W JPEG do very good job, in my world |
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« Reply #685 on: January 17, 2013, 02:52:34 AM » |
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Hmm... I tnink the car image works very well, and the soft tonality suits the subject, but the headshot doesn't (at least on my calibration of my monitor). It bears the same 'flatness' of a pulled wet print that seems also to accompany several of the shots posted on LuLa to display the glories and virtuosity of the mono Leica M.
IMO, at least, and I'm regularly mistaken.
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« Reply #686 on: January 17, 2013, 04:06:58 AM » |
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Hmm... I tnink the car image works very well, and the soft tonality suits the subject, but the headshot doesn't (at least on my calibration of my monitor). It bears the same 'flatness' of a pulled wet print that seems also to accompany several of the shots posted on LuLa to display the glories and virtuosity of the mono Leica M.
IMO, at least, and I'm regularly mistaken.
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You are perfectly spot on and you are not mistaken. Since I have the DP2 is try to find settings who give me exactly what output in raw the Leica MM. This is not that easy but I think I'm pretty close as you mention it When I was SIGMA evangelist, back in the day (  ), I wanted to make a special post and comparison between the MM and the DP2m, because for me, the ultimate B&W machine is the DP2m. Today I just show my experiments (only the car is a recent shoot) and stopped playing with my "MM settings". The DP2 Merrill is a Chameleon ! |
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« Reply #687 on: January 17, 2013, 04:29:53 AM » |
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You are perfectly spot on and you are not mistaken. Since I have the DP2 is try to find settings who give me exactly what output in raw the Leica MM. This is not that easy but I think I'm pretty close as you mention it When I was SIGMA evangelist, back in the day ( ), I wanted to make a special post and comparison between the MM and the DP2m, because for me, the ultimate B&W machine is the DP2m. Today I just show my experiments (only the car is a recent shoot) and stopped playing with my "MM settings". The DP2 Merrill is a Chameleon ! wonderful shots indeed. would you share with us how you tweak your DP2M to a have a MM look |
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« Reply #688 on: January 17, 2013, 05:20:14 AM » |
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I've mislaid my instruction manual - is the hot shoe safe to use with a non dedicated flash? (Sigma 530 Super in this case). I just wanted to use a flash to illuminate some frosted trees at night and see there is no co-axial socket. I suppose I could set a long exposure using manual mode and paint with open flash which would probably be better anyway - pity it's limited to 30secs as no B setting.
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« Reply #689 on: January 17, 2013, 05:31:36 AM » |
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wonderful shots indeed. would you share with us how you tweak your DP2M to a have a MM look Of course, Take a photo with your Merrill, go in SPP, make your adjustments as you like (banding, contrast, shadows, fill light). If you shoot well, you will not need to tweak that much. Then, turn your X3f in monochrome mode inside SPP. Export as Tiff 16 bits. If you have photoshop just play with the level/contrasts : you will find it pretty quick. If no photoshop, just download Paint.Net who is free and play with levels, you will find it pretty quick too |
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« Reply #692 on: January 18, 2013, 01:09:23 PM » |
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Agreed. I've run several files that didn't show the dreaded magenta/green bias and this new update introduces the problem that SPP controlled. Try the demo before buying it as this is not the solution we've been waiting for.
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« Reply #693 on: January 19, 2013, 12:06:35 PM » |
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A few images more   _SDI0453 por John Loves, en Flickr  _SDI0442 por John Loves, en Flickr  _SDI0448 por John Loves, en Flickr  _SDI0449 por John Loves, en Flickr  _SDI0450 por John Loves, en Flickr  _SDI0445 por John Loves, en Flickr |
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« Reply #694 on: January 19, 2013, 08:45:40 PM » |
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thanks Hulyss!! i will try it out!!  |
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« Reply #696 on: January 20, 2013, 05:58:11 PM » |
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kudos to all of you posting the fabulous images I am seeing in this blog......really. Very nice!! Thanks
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« Reply #697 on: January 21, 2013, 06:03:25 PM » |
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Good to see were still on the move...
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« Reply #698 on: January 21, 2013, 07:47:36 PM » |
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I'm having trouble getting the left-right-up-down arrow's to work with the color wheel. I'm on a Mac but can't get them to work with the wheel. Anyone care to share the secret.....Thanks, Max
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« Reply #699 on: January 22, 2013, 01:07:46 AM » |
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I'm having trouble getting the left-right-up-down arrow's to work with the color wheel. I'm on a Mac but can't get them to work with the wheel. Anyone care to share the secret.....Thanks, Max
Hello Max, Do you mean using the both key in the same time, to go in diagonal or just the keys alone ? @ Larkis >> damn beautiful shoots. For Cats amateurs : |
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