michael_levy3

Yes, you can do custom calibration, but you cannot use tools, such as i1Studio, because it generates an ICC profile. My iMac allows me to choose any ICC profile I like, but the XDR Pro does not. That is the basis of my question: why are ICC profiles not supported by the XDR Pro?

I cannot help wondering why Apple have decided not to support icc calibration profiles on their new XDR Pro Monitor. I assume that a factory calibration for various work-flow scenarios is bound to be vastly superior to anything an end user could do with an Xrite i1Studio or SpiderX. But I assume that (ordinary) color monitors drift over time. Could they think that their monitors don't need to be recalibrated because they do not drift? In fact, why do monitors need re-calibration every 128 hours?

1. Connect your iPad to your Mac 2. Launch the Apple "Photos" app. 3. Your device will (should) show up on the left side of the Photos screen. 4. Select your device 5. Follow the upload instructions. This has always worked for me. If it does not, call Apple Support. I have always had good experiences with them.

Some great photographers (especially street photographers) only shoot in monochrome. For them, even having a color option is a distraction. For me, the entire reason I bought a Leica M was to get away from the feature overload of other brands. I wanted exactly and only the features that I would use. On my old camera (Canon SLR), I could set it up to shoot the way I wanted, but then all the other buttons, levers and dials were just a distraction. My Canon had many focus "modes", and yet I feel way more in control of focus with the rangefinder. Of course some people probably buy Leica's for the status, but as a working tool for a certain style of photography, Leica M's are (to borrow from Einstein) as simple as possible, but no simpler. So, to answer your original question: I don't know. But I do know that there are some great photographs taken with Leica monochrome cameras. And if monochrome is all you want, why buy a camera that compromises quality with an unnecessary feature that you are never going to use?

Almost twice the pixel count as the M10, and no RGB filters means a huge amount of extra detail in the raw image. I would expect the results to be sensational, especially for prints.

Before I retired, I worked for Apple, mostly on stuff related to PDF. We had a big internal debate about using sidecars vs. embedding for dealing with user annotations. I favoured sidecars for various reasons, and I still do. Although PDF is very well specified, the mechanism for modifying existing PDFs can lead to the document constantly growing in size. For example, if you delete an existing annotation and replace it with a new one, it is likely that the old one will not actually be deleted. From a programming point of view, you can delete the old annotation only by completely rewriting the document, and this can be an expensive operation. So you might decide to use PDF's internal update stuff, but then the client apps probably have to offer its users a way to rewrite the file when bloat starts becoming a problem. In the case of image files, there is a benefit to leaving the original RAW file pristine. There are always risks when a file is modified, including the possibility that some future app of yours does not understand the changes made by the old app. Of course, if the developers are careful to follow the XMP spec precisely, you are probably OK, but for me (with lots of experience with programmers), I would much rather not take the chance. Of course, sidecars come with there own risks, but I would rather loose my edits than my image.

Wow. You can use your M lenses. I did not know that. Which adapter are you using?

Trying out Capture One 20. Old photo, M10, 50mm SUmmilux. Yaletown, Vancouver. Handheld. 1/3 sec at f11.

I have been considering switching from Lightroom Classic to Capture One. However, I do like the control over printing that I get from Lightroom. Since printing is way more important to me than online images, I need good control over the entire printing process. Is the printing module in Capture One as good (or better) than Lightrooms?

Arthur, since you asked....

Thanks. Yes, still there.

From a while back: Granville Island, Vancouver. M10, 50mm lens

M10, Summicron 35.

Funny, I always had trouble nailing focus with my Canon 7D AF system. I hardly ever miss the focus point I intend with my Leica.

M10, 50mm Summilux, Cambie Village, Vancouver