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With the original MM, Leica published a chart of the sensor’s spectral sensitivity. I can’t seem to find one for the M246 CMOSIS sensor. Has anyone seen one?

 

Anecdotal observations so far… Open shade with a yellow (#8) filter is around f/4, 1/250s, ISO 1000 (EV11) so at least at ISO 1000, the effective ISO is more like 250.

 

-jbl

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Here's what I'm guessing will be a more helpful view (I own a complete set of B+W filters, so I was able to test this), which is in daylight shot on 90% reflectance neutral media (trial 1 is diffuse sunlight; trial 2 is bright sunlight). The scale is in PS levels, from the DNG, center-of-frame. I set the exposure to 320 ISO, manual setting such that no filter clipped white. Not a perfect test, but close enough.

 

Understand that color contrast filters do not make hard cuts (as would be used in a spectrographic analysis), so things look a little different from a basic sensitivity chart. This infers the sensitivity.

 

The reason why your yellow 8 looks so powerful is that open shade has a lot of blue light in it. For neutral-colored objects, the yellow 8 is actually the most transparent filter available (except to blue light). A lot of shots with the M typ 246 and orange and red filters look muddy, and that is not a surprise.

 

This chart is mine; not for further reproduction. 

 

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This would obviously not be representative of colored objects, but it tells you what you have to do to get the neutral ones to the exposure you want.

 

I really want to do something like this with focus shift, which seems to be an issue with some lenses and filters.

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Here's what I'm guessing will be a more helpful view (I own a complete set of B+W filters, so I was able to test this), which is in daylight shot on 90% reflectance neutral media (trial 1 is diffuse sunlight; trial 2 is bright sunlight). The scale is in PS levels, from the DNG, center-of-frame. I set the exposure to 320 ISO, manual setting such that no filter clipped white. Not a perfect test, but close enough.

 

Interesting. I'm not sure if i interpret the chart right. What's the unit on the Y-axis? What's it representing?

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Interesting. I'm not sure if i interpret the chart right. What's the unit on the Y-axis? What's it representing?

 

Absolute level returned by Photoshop from the default-rendered RAW file (0-255), set so that the white target clipped as closely to 255 as possible. I have also changed these to log sub 255 charts here:

 

https://themachineplanet.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/the-leica-monochrom-typ-246-and-filters/

 

So that you can see how the shapes compare to other media.

 

Dante

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