mitchell Posted December 22, 2006 Share #1 Posted December 22, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) More shots from the crapy camera. 640 ISO, 1/30 [ATTACH]19213[/ATTACH] 320 ISO,1/350 [ATTACH]19214[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted December 22, 2006 Posted December 22, 2006 Hi mitchell, Take a look here Carl and Canal . I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
peterv Posted December 22, 2006 Share #2 Posted December 22, 2006 Nice shots! Certainly don't look crapy to me. BTW you were in Amsterdam in november and already had the M8? Now I'm jealous... Cheers, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym911 Posted December 22, 2006 Share #3 Posted December 22, 2006 the first shot shows the issues this camera has quite clearly (WB/inability to render blacks and good skin tones)....but both are nice snapshots. andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share #4 Posted December 22, 2006 Peter, Thanks for your kind remark. I was on lists in the US for a M8, but it was clear I'd have a long wait. I'd heard of people being able to buy M8 from smaller dealers. I was going to Amsterdam, so I emailed all the authorized Leica dealers in the Netherlands. About 1/2 replied and two said they could sell me a camera. I ended up taking the very nice train to Maastricht, and buying from Foto Rembrandt. All arranged from the states by email. Foto R. was great. I was even able to charge the battery on the train ride back, and shoot that evening. Amsterdam is a great place. Best, Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billh Posted December 23, 2006 Share #5 Posted December 23, 2006 The scene is really beautiful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjphoto Posted December 23, 2006 Share #6 Posted December 23, 2006 Sorry, but all the skin tones i see with the M8 are frightful. Did you use the filter? http://www.tjphoto.net Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_peter_m Posted December 23, 2006 Share #7 Posted December 23, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Looks like you are doing pretty good with that crappie camera Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share #8 Posted December 23, 2006 I'm not sure you can blame the camera for skin tones as this was shot in RAW. It printed fine, but now I realize is much redder when posted on the forum. I'm not too swift with PS. It's taken me a number of attempts to get this second one sized so it can fit below 244K. I save it around 200 K, and then when I go to upload it turns out the image is still 678K. I finally used Save For Web, but I think this creates color problems. Anyway, hope this skin seems better. Best, Mitchell [ATTACH]19237[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share #9 Posted December 23, 2006 Thanks Bill and Peter. The camera is really great to use. Amsterdam is a beautiful city. Tim, no filter was used. Best, Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjphoto Posted December 23, 2006 Share #10 Posted December 23, 2006 Yes, now it looks more better. Thanks, Tim http://www.tjphoto.net Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfredo Posted December 23, 2006 Share #11 Posted December 23, 2006 Nice shot. It is interesting that you did not get the magenta cast on the black jacket even though you did not use filters. The portrait shot is very pleasant. Merry Christmas, Wilfredo Benitez-Rivera Photography Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share #12 Posted December 23, 2006 Thanks Wifredo. If you look at the first version you can see some magenta in the jacket. I think the reason there isn't more and that the second is correct is due to using Jamie's profiles for which I'm very thankful. Best, Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym911 Posted December 23, 2006 Share #13 Posted December 23, 2006 it does now look much better, maybe a tad 'light' but much better. andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted December 23, 2006 Share #14 Posted December 23, 2006 Mitchell, you should convert to sRGB before the save for web stage if you want the image to keep the correct colours in a browser. A couple of clicks in the iCorrect Editlab Photoshop Plugin gave this... [ATTACH]19281[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted December 23, 2006 Author Share #15 Posted December 23, 2006 Thanks Steve. That's a really big improvement. I'll do it from now on. Best, Mitchell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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