Marten Root Posted July 4, 2012 Share #1 Posted July 4, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm interested to know what 'recipe' Leica is using to produce their 'incamera' jpgs. In other words: if I were to make my own BW jpgs in LR 4.1 from the imported DNG what BW 'curve' / mix / contrast etc. should I be using to get as close as possible to their incamera jpg. Of course I can try to achieve it by comparing (trial and error) but maybe this is known by some of you and published somewhere on this forum or elsewhere. Thanks in advance! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 4, 2012 Posted July 4, 2012 Hi Marten Root, Take a look here Leica's M9 recipe for BW jpgs. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
esquire53 Posted July 5, 2012 Share #2 Posted July 5, 2012 I'm interested to know what 'recipe' Leica is using to produce their 'incamera' jpgs. In other words: if I were to make my own BW jpgs in LR 4.1 from the imported DNG what BW 'curve' / mix / contrast etc. should I be using to get as close as possible to their incamera jpg. Of course I can try to achieve it by comparing (trial and error) but maybe this is known by some of you and published somewhere on this forum or elsewhere. Thanks in advance! If you want to be close to the "incamera" look of the b/w, why not use those files and don't even go with LP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted July 5, 2012 Share #3 Posted July 5, 2012 It does indeed not make too much sense not to use the in-camera jpg in that case. You should be able to do a lot better than that in LR though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted July 5, 2012 Share #4 Posted July 5, 2012 Marten- Are you trying to get a B&W DNG from your M9 images? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marten Root Posted July 5, 2012 Author Share #5 Posted July 5, 2012 Thank you for your reply. Yes indeed am I trieing (aren't we all?) to distill the ideal b/w file from the colour information raw file and since this 'ideal' b/w is always a subjective matter I was just interested in their underlieing aestetics by trieing to decipher what recipe leica is using to distill their incamera jpgs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWC Doppel Posted July 9, 2012 Share #6 Posted July 9, 2012 Interesting question as Thorsten uses jpgs for some of his B&W not RAW as he prefers the look Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
qvsm Posted July 10, 2012 Share #7 Posted July 10, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Its fair enough - the Jpgs with bw/high contrast set look fantastic a lot of the time. And they print well - just made a 30x20 print from such a jpg and it looks great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted July 10, 2012 Share #8 Posted July 10, 2012 Of course I can try to achieve it by comparing (trial and error) but maybe this is known by some of you and published somewhere on this forum or elsewhere. There are advantages to trial and error. You learn more about what goes into an image because knowing want you like is also about understanding what you don't like. But the M9 B&W JPEG's are pretty easy to emulate with Silver Efex Pro, and not only emulate but refine and improve upon. The advantage here is that Silver Efex can either give you a preset that is a close starting point, or it can be done from scratch, but either way you see how and why the image takes shape, you can see the tone curve, how the the subtle nuances are achieved. And you can start with a TIFF file from your .dng which has to be infinitely better than working with a JPEG. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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