johnvanr wrote:
I got the Q2 monochrom a few years ago, while still in the US. I find that I don't use it that much. So, I listed it for sale.
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I'm planning to keep it for now, but I'm wondering if those who had it and sold it, did regret it. Or how people fared who sold it and then just used a color camera to shoot their B&Ws.
Been there done that. Sold my first Q2M for a variety of reasons, mostly economic, I felt guilty having so much money tied up in a single camea. Then I missed having it, bought another, and sold it a short time later.
It all started with the first image below. Taken with a Nikon Zf, I thought this would be a better image in high-contrast monochome. Note the red lettering on the Musk sign. Now check the monochome version below, rendered in Nikon camera matching Monochome via LR:
Where is the lettering on the Musk sign? Well the standard Monochome renders the red medium-light grey, and is lost in the blue back ground of the sign. ☹️ But using a simulated Red filter, in camera or in LR, renders the lettering in near White. So if your were shooting the Q2M in a varied and quickly changing environment, you would have little time (if any) to react and attach a proper color filter to the lens. Had this image been shot with the Q2M, even with the yellow filter, the word HEIL would barely be visible. And, there would be little option to recover it in LR.
So for me, and my shooting preferences, my monochrome camera days are over, and I don't miss it. I can shoot my Zf in mono/raw, and if the BW color rendering is not to my liking I can take the RAW to LR, Photoshop...whatever and adjust the color channels to get a result that pleases me.
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Rod
May 03, 2025 at 06:18 AM
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