alw Posted May 17, 2012 Share #41 Â Posted May 17, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Incredible performance at those ISOs...but maybe too clean for my liking. Well, I can always add grain later in pp! I want the camera. I wonder how easy it is to get come autumn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #42 Â Posted May 17, 2012 Those Ian Berry shots show, even on internet jpegs, the thing that struck me first on the MM: the plasticity of the rendering of skin. Â Those are on an M9-P and processed with Aperture and SIlver Efex - a great combination, but this has now been blown out of the water by the M Monochrom!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #43 Â Posted May 17, 2012 Incredible performance at those ISOs...but maybe too clean for my liking. Well, I can always add grain later in pp!I want the camera. I wonder how easy it is to get come autumn. Â Indeed you can :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #44 Â Posted May 17, 2012 Edmond... really is NOT a typo the 8000 ASA statement ? Looking at those splendid pics, I had thought it ought to be 800... fantastic details and skin rendering. Â LOL! Nope, no typo - it is Eight Thousand ISO!! It's a nice bit of kit that camera!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #45 Â Posted May 17, 2012 What did Ian Berry think of it? Â Ian liked it, but didn't shoot pictures to take away. Naturally the biggest part is seeing the images it can produce and we haven't chatted since I uploaded mine. We will do soon, I'm sure :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #46  Posted May 17, 2012 Very nice pictures. Can you provide provide full size versions on Flickr? Regards!  Tim  No, sorry. I don't upload any full size images on the web. You can see some 100% crops on my blog though:  The Leica M Monochrom Hands On Review | Photo This & That  :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #47  Posted May 17, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Very impressive pictures indeed and thanks for posting - I have to say that the other pics you posted of the same scene taken with the M9 on Flickr are also pretty damn good Tony  Thank you. The 50mm APO Summicron is a very nice lens! If I were to convert the colour shots to BW, they wouldn't look near as good as the MM pictures. If you compare the portraits of Ian with the real BWs, you get an idea:  The Leica M Monochrom Hands On Review | Photo This & That Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #48 Â Posted May 17, 2012 Isn't Ian Berry holding the MM? I don't suppose Leica Mayfair had two floating about. Â There were in fact two prototype MMs there and two 50mm APO Summicrons too :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #49  Posted May 17, 2012 Yeah, I had read that when I posted. But the comparison shots? Nowhere. What we want to know is not that the Apo-Summicron is good – which we take for granted – but that it is actually thrice as good as the plain Summicron. Which is after all the oldest design in the entire M stable.  The old man from the Kodachrome Age  I can't tell you in technical terms - I'm not a technical reviewer and certainly my time with this gear was limited as it was a press event. I'm sure the magazines and websites will do thorough reviews with pictures of charts and such.  Purely as a photographer's view (not taking into account the cost), I would say that I loved it, and it impressed me more than when I had my own 50mm Summicron. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmond_terakopian Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share #50 Â Posted May 17, 2012 I'm very grateful to you for posting these Edmond, but for the sake of completeness I should add that my wallet isn't. Â Cheers....and sorry ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted May 21, 2012 Share #51 Â Posted May 21, 2012 Those Ian Berry shots show, even on internet jpegs, the thing that struck me first on the MM: the plasticity of the rendering of skin. Â Just wondering, Jaap, if you've had any further thoughts about the rendering in these internet JPEGs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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