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 p.501 #1 · Leica M/X/T/S/Q/CL/SL Picture Thread | |
allstarimaging wrote:
Anyone care to post a unprocessed M9 jpeg straight from the camera. I am condsidering the purchase of an M9 and I'm curious how the straight out the camera images look prior to processing. Currently shooting Nikon DSLR and I have things set up in camera so that my out of camera jpegs really don't need a lot of post. I'd like to get a sense of how the Leica jpegs look and I know from what I have read that people feel you need to shoot in RAW to get the most out of the files but I don't like to spend a lot of time processing my images. Thank you.
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Hi, Jack, If you shoot B&W, I think Leica M9 JPEG file are very pleasing. Much better than my D700. The curve JPEG engine does make it a lot like film than my D700 output.
Shooting color in JPEG only is no go for me. It is too risky because Auto WB sucks, so you got wired color which is difficult to correct especially under difficult lighting and fast changing lighting. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you do Manual WB under well controlled light. Again, my experience is M9 is more difficult camera shoot JPG. I believe Canikon, Fiji, Olympus etc all must invest multi-million dollar to fine tune their JPG engine, which is certainly not the case of Leica. Raw developer also seems spend more time with those big player at default picture style setting.
But, I don’t see any fussy about this. I usually have a preset in LR4 and don’t spend any time on an image I don’t want post here or flickr. Some of the images don’t need PP, and none of them I spend more than 20mins. This is essentially the same work flow of my other digital camera.
Charles, I like the last one from rainbow beach. Love the sunstar.
Luka, whole film set is cool. I love the number 1 (though dono what are those?) and last three.
Dan, that ISO1250 shot looks extreme clean. Nice color too.
Hilmar, the car shot from Noct is nice. A real DOF showcase. The portrait of you by soft Window light also nice. Is that baby yours?
Najibs, the first B&W portrait of your daughter (I assume) is nice. I also like the last shot.
Adam, nice example of that ‘prototype’ lens. Envy you, I see you mention about build quality. Can you elaborate it more with some pictures would be nice. That portrait looks awesome. Agree with Ron that your picture looks great.
Ron, The color out of your images always look great. It is very misleading for potential M9 buyer. Judge VC12 photo from your image, do we really need multi-thousand $$$ lens? And my favorite is Dead fish shot.
Again, To me, there is no better camera or lens, only photographer. We can talk about gear all day, but it really has nothing to do with the photo in the end, IMHO.
And Thanks for comment. That is the scary face she gave me if she is not happy to take photo  I wish that Bentley is mine. 35cron V1 is ridicules priced lens 2nd hand. (not worth it IMO.) In Asia/japan, there is a theory that the lens have some fancy element inside. (And the one made in Canada was rated even higher than in Germany.) I bought it at decent price $1200. For the price, it is an outstanding lens. I mentioned at f2, the lens have bigger sharpness cycle than both Zeiss Biogon f2 and VC35 f1.2 at least for my copy tested at infinity. I need one with ‘google’ so that I can put it on my M3. That is the motivation I got this lens, and now I can partially understand the what ‘fussy’ about this lens: it build extremely well as 50cron Rigid and super compact with almost zero distortion after 3M. The lens need to be stop down to f8 to have ‘extreme extreme….’(notice I put two extreme, I think it might be something to do with my hood 12585, which share with 50cron) corner sharpness tight up, but rest of frame is very sharp after f2.8. The biggest complain I have is it will flare easily.
I only use M3 in the past weekend. No new image to share.
An old film shot with M3 and Zeiss sonnar WO.
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The rendering of 50 Cron AA at f/2 seems to have better feel and presence than the 50 Lux Asph at f/2. Very interesting!
