Thanks, Moose. I love this image, and I am really loving this camera.
It feels like coming home. At "low" ISO 320 (such as in the Danny/ice
cream picture), a bit like a cross between medium format and T400CN. At
higher ISOs, kind of like Tri-X, but three stops better and not as
grainy. The flexibility of the files is amazing. One noisy pixel is one
little pepper-grain, rather than an extrapolated blob.
Back in the wet darkroom days, I remember spending hours smelling fixer,
printing on Agfa Gevagam-8, dodging and burning with multiple
polycontrast filters and using ferricyanide bleach to get the look I
wanted. And could only get it when the lighting and exposure and
development were exactly so. The Monochrom has its quirks, but when I
ask it to capture what I see, it seems to say, "Sure, work with me, and
we can do that."
--Peter
On 6/5/2015 1:27 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
Lunch with good friends yesterday gave me a chance to exercise the
tonality and dynamic range of my just-acquired,pre-loved Leica
Monochrom.
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/18467283075/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/>
Leica MM, 35mm Summicron at f/4, ISO 320. Enjoy!
Didn't some guy pontificate about dedicated monochrome sensors, recently? Oh,
yeah, that opinionated Moose fellow.
This image, like the better of Tina's Monochrome images, is a nice
illustration of what he was talking about in thesmoothness and
subtlety of tonal graduations.
Nice portrait, to boot.
Self Referential Moose
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