sean_reid Posted February 15, 2007 Share #41 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi Cindy, Â I wondered if you'd pop into this thread. Â Cheers, Â Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted February 15, 2007 Share #42 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Cindy got your e-mail it should be clear through the lens. i will also respnd to your e-mail. Trying to catch up, it's late Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
judybabinski Posted February 15, 2007 Share #43 Â Posted February 15, 2007 HI Â I am a female. Had my M8 since late December. Prior to the M8, I shot mainly B&W and printed in the darkroom or scanned and printed on an Epson printer. I really do appreciate the forum as I am really struggling learning the RAW conversion. So far, I like ACR 4. with the CS3 beta. It allows me to recover both highlight and shadow detail and I tend to shoot wide angle contrasty situations. I have found that C1 lite only allows recover of one or the other. Â Thanks Judy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted February 15, 2007 Share #44 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Judy you can work the curves and levels in C1 to bring out the shadows and recover the highlights also. Maybe i can go over that in a thread with the help of Jamie and post so samples of that. I am trying to remember if C1 lite has those controls for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindy Flood Posted February 15, 2007 Share #45 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Guy, Please do that. I'm sure there are lots of forum members who could learn a thing or two from that tutorial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi S Posted February 15, 2007 Share #46 Â Posted February 15, 2007 I read the forum almost every day and have learned so much. There is usually very little that I could add, so I don't post often. Â My M8 spent the holidays in Sohms, and since it has been back it has been below zero outside. I also have a Digilux 3 which I love, and used when the M8 was visiting it's homeland. It is easier to use with big gloves and parka on. Hope to use the M8 more this spring. Â My theory as to why there aren't a lot of women on this forum is that around here at least, the ratio of women photographers to men photographers is very small, and that probably transfers to this forum and other photographic forums. The customers at the camera shops around here are usually men, or men with their wives. Â A big THANK YOU to everyone on this forum for all the time and knowledge that everyone shares so graciously!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted February 15, 2007 Share #47 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Judy, depending on how many photos you take, you may want to give Lightroom a test-run once it is released, and a demo becomes available. It has a slew of library, management and export functions which ACR doesn't have, and since the same company makes both, there won't be huge differences in capability. If you don't already have Photoshop, it is also *much* cheaper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEBnewyork Posted February 15, 2007 Share #48 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Hi, I'm a woman on the forum but I only own a D2 and a D-lux3. I find the forum very informative and read a lot of M8 posts just to learn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share #49 Â Posted February 15, 2007 Being new to the Leica Forum and rangefinder shooting I'm wondering whether there are any female M8 owners out there. I have not seen them participating in the forum discussions I followed.Or are they simply better photographers enjoying their Leica gear, shooting great pictures rather than engaging in the competition of discovering another alleged bug in the M8, holding a finger in front of the rangefinder window and wondering why focusing was off, being driven by a strange desire to share boring family shots with forum members and letting others know that it (the M8) arrived! Â What is your thought? Â Martin, just so you know, I merged our two threads re: female Leica users and M8 owners together as they basically were inquiring of the same topic. Â Thanks. Â Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
judybabinski Posted February 15, 2007 Share #50  Posted February 15, 2007 Thanks Carsten and Guy  I have used Lightroom beta some and am buying the real version. But I kinda like ACR 4 in PS3 beta better for raw conversion. Lightroom beta just has ACR 3.6. It will probably have ACR 4 at some point. Maybe the canned profiles are better. Anyway, I would also like to use C1 lite more since many here like it quite a bit.  As to posting, I am just not experienced enough in RAW to offer much. But you guys do a great job. I might have given up on the M8 if this forum wasn't here. But as a long time Leica user, I love the idea of the M8. It just seems to have a steeper learning curve for me.  Judy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEBnewyork Posted February 16, 2007 Share #51  Posted February 16, 2007 Thanks Carsten and Guy I have used Lightroom beta some and am buying the real version. But I kinda like ACR 4 in PS3 beta better for raw conversion. Lightroom beta just has ACR 3.6. It will probably have ACR 4 at some point. Maybe the canned profiles are better. Anyway, I would also like to use C1 lite more since many here like it quite a bit.  As to posting, I am just not experienced enough in RAW to offer much. But you guys do a great job. I might have given up on the M8 if this forum wasn't here. But as a long time Leica user, I love the idea of the M8. It just seems to have a steeper learning curve for me.  Judy  I thought that Lightroom essentially used ACR so the versions would be in synch. I'm very new with RAW and was going to use Lightroom. What am I missing in my understanding of the products. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
judybabinski Posted February 16, 2007 Share #52 Â Posted February 16, 2007 CS3 beta version uses ACR 4.0. You can find this somewhere in the software. Lightroom beta uses, I believe 3.6. A thread on the Adobe Lightroom forum said that the soon to be released version of LR (Feb. 19) will have ACR 3.7. When CS3 is released, it will have ACR 4 and at that time, presumablly, 4.0 will also be an available update to LR. I'm guessing that once both programs are out of the beta mode, the ACR versions will be in sync. Â Hope this helps. You might check out the Adobe Lightroom user to user forums. Â Judy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEBnewyork Posted February 16, 2007 Share #53 Â Posted February 16, 2007 Thanks Judy I will start looking at the Lightroom forum as part of my normal routine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squiff Posted February 26, 2007 Share #54 Â Posted February 26, 2007 i too am a woman, and am a leica user. I find extremely helpful information on the site from many of your posts, and enjoy reading them. Perhaps its the left brain, right brain thing......... Or perhaps some of you are right, and 'we' females spend more time on the artistic side than the technical. Perhaps for some it is that there is less time to spend on the forum because the 'better halves' are online and someone has to watch the rugrats......... I have seen and been subject to somewhat condescending and sexist comments, that has made me hesitant about putting my two cents in. Because I am not as technically knowledgable as many here and I dont like to be made to feel like a fool. Perhaps comments about Hermes leather M8s and women make us feel like we are in the 50s ? Perhaps there are many reasons. s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stnami Posted February 26, 2007 Share #55 Â Posted February 26, 2007 ... ahhh but good photography is more interesting than lens fondling, technical mumbo jumbo and probably most of the crap I write here... just ask Mick, the bastard that flogged me camera and sold it for a slab...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted February 26, 2007 Share #56 Â Posted February 26, 2007 Stephanie, the Hermes comment was just one individual, there are many great people here who don't think like that at all. Also, there are many here who aren't as technically knowledgeable as many here Don't worry too much and post if you have something to say. Life is too short to stand on the edge of the pool the whole time, IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_h Posted February 26, 2007 Share #57 Â Posted February 26, 2007 ? Has anyone ever heard a woman describe her partner as the better half..? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted February 26, 2007 Share #58 Â Posted February 26, 2007 Don't be silly, James, we are the stinky half Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
squiff Posted February 27, 2007 Share #59 Â Posted February 27, 2007 Thanks Carston, I will take your advice and post more often, when I feel the neccessity..... and true sometimes you are the stinkier half, metaphorically as well as literally!!! s:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eronald Posted February 27, 2007 Share #60  Posted February 27, 2007 HI I am a female. Had my M8 since late December. Prior to the M8, I shot mainly B&W and printed in the darkroom or scanned and printed on an Epson printer. I really do appreciate the forum as I am really struggling learning the RAW conversion. So far, I like ACR 4. with the CS3 beta. It allows me to recover both highlight and shadow detail and I tend to shoot wide angle contrasty situations. I have found that C1 lite only allows recover of one or the other.  Thanks Judy  Judy, have you tried my Portasa curve ? It's on my site.  Edmund Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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