Mitch, no presets for those two. I don't use any presets in Lightroom apart from for input sharpening.
Peter, fantastic photos.
Jabber, nice shot.
Edward, looks like a nice evening.
Thank you Joakim and Edward
Joakim, love the last shot!
Mitch, nice low light series
Peter, awesome shots, and just love the PP'ing. Great work with the 90 Cron. Agree that C1 Pro is still best for PP'ing the DNG files. More so, I am envious of the fantastic country you are hiking within!!
Mitch Alland wrote:
Charles, what are you using for processing the M240 files? Some people on LUF have been writing about making dual-illuminant camera profiles created with a Gretag-Macbeth Color Checker 24-patch chart and Adobe DNG Profile Editor 1.04, and one of the states that it took three or four attempts to get the chart shots right.
I had originally tried the Camera Color Checker 24 patch for the M9 when it first came out, as did many others here. I had profiles in 4 different types of lighting, and instead I used C1 Pro as the preferred RAW engine processor. The colors were better, and there were inconsistencies using the Color Checker profiles. Of course this was resolved as Leica and Adobe evolved in a very workable package with firmware and software upgrades.
I am aware there is a new beta firmware being presently tested for the new M240, and it will address a lot of the WB issues, as well as a number of others.
Edward, very nice shots with the ZM 50 Plannar.
Thanks, and the colors are different that usual. The colors of the mid afternoon beach scene is looking South, so it tends to blue/cyan at that time. Personally I prefer warmer tones, but I left them as is just for this series. The colors are very rich in tones and graduation, straight from the M240. It is definitely a marked improvement over the M9, but of course color profiles will have evolve again with firmware update..soon, and Lr/PS algorithms.
Adam, I have not tried the 28 Cron yet on the M240, as I usually go for the 50mm FL first. If I opt for a WA, I usually just pick up the 24 Lux now, rather messing with too many lenses. The 28 Cron I love using it with a red filter with the Monochrome, as it is light, no external VF needed and it renders great in B&W. I have to try it out more, but I have found in the past the 28 Cron works better in low light or flatter lighting with the M9. I have always loved the rendering of the 28's for B&W, both the Elmarit and Cron.
Jabbar, loved your image, Leica and Venice just go together.
Peter, I can’t climb mountains anymore but I will just sit back and enjoy the "grosser Ahornboden" through your eyes and the M9-P.
Edward, if you ever come to California and want to experience the winery scene, try the area around Paso Robles instead of Napa Valley. It is what Napa was in the 70’s, half way between LA and San Francisco. My wife is wine club member of several of the wineries.
muc_marlin wrote:
Thanks a lot for the comments and likes!
Regarding the post processing. I always try to get a natural look and therefore try to pp as less is possible. 80% of my images are finished within the RAW-Converter. Very frequently I use graduated neural density filters. My favored RAW-Converter is Capture One Pro, I love it for it's colors and native sharpness, I tried all the other common options and always came back to Capture One Pro. First I check the wb, but to my surprise the M9P gets it most right. Then I make an s-courve with suits the picture, followed by shadow adjustment via the (I don't know the english words) RGB window, I adjust each color channel for it self, followed by adjusting the highlights in same window but all three colors together. If I have a picture with a lot fine-tender-nuances together with some early morning mist, then I never use any clarity! With normal lighting doing the day I always look how clarity looks like, but never more then 15, if it dose fit I'll use it. Within Capture One Pro I never apply sharpness, the native sharpness with Leica is for my needs most of the times just right. I convert them in 16bit tifs and open them in Photo Shop to have a second look. If some areas still look dull I adjust them locally. But what I have seen so far, the contrast delivered by the Leica lenses it self looks very often good enough for my taste. The pictures I made with Nikon lenses needed more selective touches. Then I resize them, when I think they need some minor sharpening, I change to Lab-Colors go to the channel palette and sharpen only the luminance via selective sharpening. For the frames I made for each lens a action which place them in the Miranda folder. I know, not a very fancy technique at all........Show more →
Peter, thank you very much for this detailed explanation. Very interesting because I love the outcome of your PP a lot.
Thank you Charles, Joakim and Salvador for the kind comments, and Salvador, thank you also for the recommendation about Paso Robles. Your last set is quite nice especially the 1st and last shots.
^nice work with VSCO rsolti . A friend of mine purchased one of their sets and I tried fiddling with it on his comp but I couldn't get it to my liking. I like your approach though, especially last two.
Another pic from the last hike. I hope to get lucky and revisit this place on a foggy day.
Wow, I am really overwhelmed by the resonance of the last set of pictures! Thanks a lot.....
rsolti, I never heard of that presets, but looks like fun to experiment with it! For me personal the last works the best. It would be very interesting to see one picture with different presets, maybe this would make it easier to find out which preset work for certain motives?
rirakuma, very interesting trunk! Some fog would bring certainly a lot of atmosphere.
Ryan, just love these shots with the VSCO presets! My preference has always been slide film for the rich deep colors, 1/3 underexposure and mild over development in the tank
Rocky, very nicely captured and PP'd! It is so hard in the Australian bush, to find any soft lighting, as it is always so harsh. Of course it is best when there is light rain or fog to soften the lighting
Ryan, I really like your photos with the VSOC profiles. They do look genuinely like slide film.
Rirakuma, that shot is a torture test for your lens and sensor, but it came out really well.
Gary, great architecture shot. Love the balance, symmetry and grey tones.
Guys didn't finish editing the horse photos before my Phuket trip snuck up on me. Will post a lot of APO shots when I'm back. Seems to mostly be on my camera the last few days.
Charles, when you get a chance to use it, let me know. But I get where you're coming from.. The 28 does produce some good bw files.
I am really enjoying the images with the 28 cron, a very strong contender for my next lens. A few from downtown LA, I like testing the iso and white balance at the Grand Central Market.
Gary, really like the architecture shot! I am fast becoming very interested in the 21 SEM
Ryan, love the VSCO colour to these shots!!! Particularly #3 and 4
Sal, nice street set
Allen, awesome composition!
Adam, some quick shots with 28 Cron on M240. My take on this lens has changed. I love now the ergonomics of the M240, where you can have the 28 Cron, on auto ISO, with advanced exposure Using LV it is very easy to compose the frame and no issues with parallax. This has been the issue in past for me with WA's, that trying to find horizontal and guesstimating the frame lines meant when the images were corrected for horizontal, the framing of the shot did not work for me. Enough said, couple of casual shots on auto ISO at f/2.0. I am using Lr 5.2 RC2 which processes the M240 DNG files a lot quicker.
airfrogusmc - what an awesome shot!
charles - very nice pics again with the 28 cron . Just wondering if you use any viewfinder for this lens? The framelines on my M is maxed out at 35mm so anything wider will require an external vf.
Thanks guys. Been out of town for a few days as you can see. So much killer stuff here to get caught up on. Nice shot Charles.... M 240 & 28 seem to work extremely well in your hands.
rirakuma wrote:
airfrogusmc - what an awesome shot!
charles - very nice pics again with the 28 cron . Just wondering if you use any viewfinder for this lens? The framelines on my M is maxed out at 35mm so anything wider will require an external vf.
Thanks Rocky and Allen I have not used the VF with the 28 Cron with the M9P/M240. The 28 FL's are just visible on the outside if you move your eye closer. I am really liking the LV, particularly for portraits with WA's as the perspective can be way off just using the OVF.
More shots with the 28 Cron and M240 ISO 2500 about. Last shot with 50 Nocti f/1.0 200 ISO
. The self portrait of course is my favorite
. All with the 28 Cron
