lenticular11 wrote:
Mitch Alland wrote
designdog wrote
...While the M-Looks presets are nice, they really are intended to make non-Leica cameras have the Leica look. I used them with my Nikons... My experience is different: I'm finding that the Leica M-Looks presets — actually, the subset of Real Film Real Film (Typ 4) and Real Film (Typ 5) B&W, which can be purchased for $15 — are by far the best presets for a starting point to where I want to go with processing for any particular image file. I was hoping that some others might want to try them in order to see other views on this, particularly because these presets use a completely different way of processing than other LR presets that I have seen. As I mentioned preciously, I read in a couple of places that these presets were originally made to process M240 files to look like those of the M9. However, I find they work well even for M9 files, as well as M10 files —and are also good for my old Ricoh GRDx files. I bought these today, to try on legacy images made by my now-sold M240.
I could not find any documentation on the characteristics of the different presets within the set.
Here is a comparison of the original file, using the standard LR CC Adobe-Standard preset, with the M-Look Type 5. I have sharpened the adobe Std image in line with the M-Look preset values.
Off-topic regarding the M-Looks presets, but to my (Australian) eye the grevillea has the most appealing flowers I’ve ever seen.