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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
Bruce wrote:
1. Leica M Monochrom, with 18 MP black and white full frame sensor. No need for a Bayer pattern, no AA filter, no interpolation. Low noise up to ISO 10,000. Niche product, needs filters on the lens (instead of being able to do that in post) which negates the high ISO partially or fully. I wish them luck. There should be more dedicated monochrome cameras. No AA filter also means that the: 2. Leica Summicron 50mm f/2 ASPH. The first 50mm Summicron with an aspherical element. The previous (pre-ASPH) model was one of the sharpest lenses ever made. This one will be even better. won't be a good match outside controlled situations where aliasing can be detected before the situation has ended. -Wolfgang |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
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wrote: Niche product, needs filters on the lens (instead of being able to do that in post) which negates the high ISO partially or fully. What filters are needed on the lens? usual ones for b/w are red or yellow, but also polarizer and others. |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
On 12/05/2012 4:17 p.m., nospam wrote:
In , Mxsmanic wrote: Niche product, needs filters on the lens (instead of being able to do that in post) which negates the high ISO partially or fully. What filters are needed on the lens? usual ones for b/w are red or yellow, but also polarizer and others. Most of the time you'd need to use colour filters on B&W (outdoors/daylight), you're probably not going to want or need to use above base ISO, so that's probably not a significant disadvantage. The Leica M9 sensor however was hardly state of the art for quantum efficiency or read noise, so I wouldn't be surprised if the mono version was not as good in any way (including resolution) as current FX canon and nikon "colour" cameras at high ISO, simply converted to B&W, with filter effects done in PP. |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
In article , Mxsmanic
wrote: usual ones for b/w are red or yellow, but also polarizer and others. Why? I never use filters for black and white, and the results are just fine. typically to darken the sky. other filters can affect foliage, skin, and other parts of the subject. |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
On 5/11/2012 8:43 PM, Mxsmanic wrote:
Wolfgang Weisselberg writes: Niche product, needs filters on the lens (instead of being able to do that in post) which negates the high ISO partially or fully. What filters are needed on the lens? The same ones as for B&W film! Red ones for very dark sky, for example. Doug McDonald |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
On 5/12/2012 6:55 AM, Mxsmanic wrote:
nospam writes: usual ones for b/w are red or yellow, but also polarizer and others. Why? I never use filters for black and white, and the results are just fine. If you are happy with the results, then keep doing what you are doing. Please understand that some of us believe the portion of Goethe's philosophy that man should never stop striving. -- Peter |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
In article , Mxsmanic
wrote: typically to darken the sky. other filters can affect foliage, skin, and other parts of the subject. For special purposes, one can filter. that's the whole point. for some situations, filters are very useful. nobody is advocating using the filters all the time. But unfiltered B&Q usually looks just fine if the spectral response of the sensor is not too different from that of human vision. The main difference between silicon and a retina is that silicon has much more extensive IR sensitivity. different issue. |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
In article , Mxsmanic
wrote: The same ones as for B&W film! I never saw a reason to use filters for B&W film. others do. Red ones for very dark sky, for example. The real sky isn't very dark, however. so what? and in some cases, it can be. |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
Mxsmanic writes:
Wolfgang Weisselberg writes: Niche product, needs filters on the lens (instead of being able to do that in post) which negates the high ISO partially or fully. What filters are needed on the lens? Color-rendering filters; like the typical yellow-orange-red used to darken skies for example. I've stopped carrying those because I always capture a color image, and if I'm making a B&W print I can get those effects in post from the color data. But the Monochrome M doesn't capture the color data, so.... -- David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info |
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Interesting Leica product announcements today ...
Mxsmanic writes:
nospam writes: usual ones for b/w are red or yellow, but also polarizer and others. Why? I never use filters for black and white, and the results are just fine. You're weird :-). Seriously, using filters to control B&W tonal rendering is *extremely* common among people doing B&W landscape photography, and other kinds for that matter. Ansel Adams was famous for pushing the skies to really dramatic low levels with a red filter. -- David Dyer-Bennet, ; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info |
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