Greg M Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) A really clean, used Leica Monochrome, Type M246. Fairmont Street.. Downtown.. Edited August 24, 2018 by Greg M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 Just curious if the dense shadows are an artistic choice, or if that's the way they come straight out of the camera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul ron Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 im sure the scans arent close to whats really on the negs. The more you say, the less people listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakubo Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I thought the Leica Monochrome, Type M246 was a digital camera. Are these film scans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 I knew that Leica made monochrome digital cameras, but had to look up the numbers: "B/W CMOS chip, active area approx. 23.9 × 35.8 mm (corresponds to usable format of analog Leica M models) without color and low-pass filter. Resolution: DNG™: 5976 × 3992 (24 megapixels), JPEG: 5952 × 3968 (24 megapixels), 4256 × 2832 (12 megapixels), 2976× 17984 (6 megapixels), 1600 × 1072 (1.7 megapixels). For video recordings: 720 P, 1080 P." Note no Bayer array, so the sensor resolution is the real resolution. No low-pass filter, so you might have moire effects, unless limited by the lens quality or diffraction. I am not sure how PN converts the uploaded files to what it shows us, but they do look pretty nice! -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul ron Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 oooooh its digital. not bad The more you say, the less people listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Not sure exactly what a "monochrome film camera" would be, but I know that I'd always go for RAW in digital and then have my way with the image.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 Polaroid Swinger and Big Swinger are monochrome, as preset for ASA 3000. -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanKlein Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 The tones are delicious. Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todd_niccole Posted August 25, 2018 Share Posted August 25, 2018 I would have said Agfa Copex Rapid 50 but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moving On Posted August 26, 2018 Share Posted August 26, 2018 but I know that I'd always go for RAW in digital and then have my way with the image.:cool: There is a new phrase just waiting to be coined from that, to describe overprocessing an image..... I especially like the first two photos. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted August 30, 2018 Author Share Posted August 30, 2018 I thought the Leica Monochrome, Type M246 was a digital camera. Are these film scans? Definitely a digital camera. No film scans. The raw, Adobe DNG files open up in Adobe camera raw quite flat and it is up to the user to process to their liking, and with no color channels like standard digital camera files, all tools in Adobe camera raw related to color channel manipulation are greyed out and unavailable to use. Most of those initial shots were mid-day in bright sunlight, some with heavy shadows and I'm just getting started down the road of learning what works best in processing these files in ACR. It's definitely a different process than color to B&W converting of standard digital images. Since these first efforts I've gone out and picked up yellow and red color filters (something I NEVER thought I'd be buying again) as they work pretty much the same with the Monochrome files exactly as they would used with B&W film images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjoseph7 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 The colors pop on these even though they are B&W. Its the best way I can describe it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 So. Are these JPEGs straight from the camera, or have they had the tone curve manipulated? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 These are developed from the DNG (raw) file and have had the tone curve adjusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 (edited) I’ll add, in the next several days I hope to have some initial scans of film images captured this past week with my M4. Sent the rolls to a just found lab on the internet for processing and scanning that provides DNG files of the scans instead of just jpegs. Film Processing Has anyone here had any experience with this lab? Edited September 5, 2018 by Greg M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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