La Morte Posted October 28, 2011 Share #1 Posted October 28, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) For the folks out there who has been asking about the M9 in a studio environment, i have just posted something on how it fared this week with a shoot i did, nothing big but proof of the fact;). http://streamlightphotography.blogspot.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jrovner Posted October 28, 2011 Share #2 Posted October 28, 2011 On your blog, you mention that the size of each of your jpg images is 35MB. When I export my M9 DNG files using Lightroom, with no change in resolution, they vary in size, but never more than 10MB. Are you shooting UNCOMPRESSED DNG? I'm using compressed DNGs, and I wonder if that accounts for the difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d2mini Posted October 28, 2011 Share #3 Posted October 28, 2011 On your blog, you mention that the size of each of your jpg images is 35MB. When I export my M9 DNG files using Lightroom, with no change in resolution, they vary in size, but never more than 10MB. Are you shooting UNCOMPRESSED DNG? I'm using compressed DNGs, and I wonder if that accounts for the difference. My compressed raw files are 18mb and my PSD files exported out of Lightroom are over 30mb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Morte Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share #4 Posted October 29, 2011 I am sorry, i forgot to say ,but for this shoot i used Photo Shop CS 4 to process. When i do a shoot like this i have around 4 programs open on the computer, 2 for the cameras whom i shoot from computer, a live view, and PS4. The client wants to see what we are shooting immediately and i did not have time, and another processing program will slow it down considerately. So PS4 it was this time. This is what PS4 told me the file-size was. I shoot ALWAYS raw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwinThomas Posted October 29, 2011 Share #5 Posted October 29, 2011 You say the images are outstanding and straight out of the camera, how do they compare with your normal images, from the Canon kit? Better? Worse? You also say You don't want the look to change all of a sudden, how do you mean? How much of a difference is the look? If I was your client I would want the best look, be it from the Leica, or Canon kit. What I see there is pretty impressive, to me anyway, specially as it has no pp done on it. On another note, when you say you've posted something specific on your blog, can you make the link point to the actual post, as opposed to the current post, ie your blog's home page. At the moment the post is on the home page and easy to find, but in 6 months from now the post is going to be buried deep within your blog. If I wanted to see the specific post I would give up looking if it was more than 2 or 3 pages into your blog. If you want people to look at the blog from the home page add another link, or put it in your signature. Just thinking of browsers in the future. Nice blog by the way, what I've seen. I've bookmarked and will read more. Cheers and thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Morte Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted October 30, 2011 Thank you for the feedback Owin. I am new to the blogging-thing, but learning fast. Will certainly find out how to post the correct link to the correct post,-don't know how yet but will find out. As for the shoot,- a client is a species of its own. Maybe i will write on that topic in my blog:D. If they saw you working with the Canon camera/70-200 mm F2.8 for many years and he was always very happy with the results, it is quite the difference if next shoot you take out a M9 and claims the images will be better. It takes time for him to do a mind-shift that the size-of-camera is not important. As for the look it seems sharper than the canon, but i don't want to bet on it. Anyway i did not buy the M9 to take over in the studio. Of cause portraits is another story. I simply did the test to see what the result will be and if it will pass the test. Ps, we seldom shoot in the studio food or products at F 2.5 or lower. Normally not lower than F5.5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwinThomas Posted October 31, 2011 Share #7 Posted October 31, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you for the feedback Owin. I am new to the blogging-thing, but learning fast. No problem. I'm going to have the same problems when I start on my blog ... one day soon, when I get my own M9. Will certainly find out how to post the correct link to the correct post,-don't know how yet but will find out. I think if you click on your post and cut 'n' paste the link in the same way as you have for the main site page. For example: Streamlight Photography: Leica M9 and product photography... Unless, of course, you have acces to the link via your blogging engine. As for the shoot,- a client is a species of its own. Maybe i will write on that topic in my blog:D. If they saw you working with the Canon camera/70-200 mm F2.8 for many years and he was always very happy with the results, it is quite the difference if next shoot you take out a M9 and claims the images will be better. It takes time for him to do a mind-shift that the size-of-camera is not important. Ah right, got you. I didn't realise the client was watching at the same time. I thought they just saw the end products, ie the images. I understand now. As for the look it seems sharper than the canon, but i don't want to bet on it. Anyway i did not buy the M9 to take over in the studio. Of cause portraits is another story. I simply did the test to see what the result will be and if it will pass the test. Ps, we seldom shoot in the studio food or products at F 2.5 or lower. Normally not lower than F5.5 That's good to know the M9 will be better than my original choice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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