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New Leica M in September 2016? The speculations.


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Forgot to say that linear response curves must be tweaked for good results of course. Better choose default settings if PP is not your cup of tea but then don't be surprised if your tastes don't match exactly the cartoonish ones of the editor ;)

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Forgot to say that linear response curves must be tweaked for good results of course. Better choose default settings if PP is not your cup of tea but then don't be surprised if your tastes don't match exactly the cartoonish ones of the editor ;)

Indeed my PP is very basic and simple, so I need a camera with a good default output. The M color is as close to my personal taste as it can get.

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By "M color" you mean the color rendition of your OOC jpegs i guess. Lucky you then. The only OOC jpegs i did not dislike too much were those of my old 5D in good light but i needed to tweak them more or less so i didn't spend more time in converting raw files anyway. Incurable raw user here sorry...

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By "M color" you mean the color rendition of your OOC jpegs i guess. Lucky you then. The only OOC jpegs i did not dislike too much were those of my old 5D in good light but i needed to tweak them more or less so i didn't spend more time in converting raw files anyway. Incurable raw user here sorry...

No, I mean the raw color without a custom profile.

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Ah yes sorry but then by "M color" you mean the way your raw converter interpretes it right? "M color by Adobe" so to speak.

 

As I mentioned earlier, I don't like the colors of the adobe standard profile, which is why I always use the embedded profile, which is the profile provided by Leica.

 

Of course, a certain degree of interpretation by the raw converter is involved even with the embedded profile, but I find it a very good starting point for my usual minor tweaks to white balance, contrast and exposure.

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OK but embedded profiles don't look the same in LR, C1 and other raw converters do they. The cartoonish effect you may find in, say, LR won't be there in C1 or another raw converter i suspect. Just a guess though as i only use C1 now.

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OK but embedded profiles don't look the same in LR, C1 and other raw converters do they. The cartoonish effect you may find in, say, LR won't be there in C1 or another raw converter i suspect. Just a guess though as i only use C1 now.

I don't use C1 but I have the impression it has its own profiles. Is it even possible to select embedded in C1? I do agree however that there will always be differences between different converters even when using the same profile.

The cartoonish colors must be caused by the color profile, though the color filter array also plays a role. I'm sure a custom profile, or an improved profile by Leica, will cure the problem.

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All the RAW converters have their own profiles.  However a DNG file can have a camera profile in it to, and LR CC does give me the option to pick "Adobe Standard" or "Embedded".  They do look different.  The main difference is that the Embedded one takes that overblown yellow look out of bright greens in grass and foliage.  It's much nicer IMO.

 

It should be possible to profile cameras to all look identical.  I have a custom profile for my 5DIII created with a colorchecker under my studio lighting so it is 'correct'.  

 

I could do the same with my Leica, but

 

I use it out and about so the colours will always be affected by whats around you so to me it's largely a pointless exercise, and

I quite like the "Leica colour".   It's subtle, but it's definitely different to my Canons and it's a look that I like.

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" It's subtle, but it's definitely different to my Canons and it's a look that I like."

 

The proper grammar is "different from", not "different to".  

 

You are going to be busy - but please remember it is an(or a) international Forum.. 

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" It's subtle, but it's definitely different to my Canons and it's a look that I like."

 

The proper grammar is "different from", not "different to".  

 

 

From OxfordDictionaries.com

 

"Different to is much more common in British English than American English:
 
In this respect the Royal Academy is no different to any other major museum."
 
 
So apologies if you can only speak in your colony's dialect and find conversing with the outside world confusing, but in England, where English is from, "Different to" is perfectly acceptable. 
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From OxfordDictionaries.com

 

"Different to is much more common in British English than American English:

 

In this respect the Royal Academy is no different to any other major museum."

 

 

So apologies if you can only speak in your colony's dialect and find conversing with the outside world confusing, but in England, where English is from, "Different to" is perfectly acceptable.

 

Doing something for 800 years the same way is not necessarily right. It's habit. It only took us 200 years to fix it.

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" It's subtle, but it's definitely different to my Canons and it's a look that I like."

 

The proper grammar is "different from", not "different to".  

Actually, as this is an international forum with posters from many countries and backgrounds it is not the style of our discussions to catch other members out on grammatical or other language errors - if they are errors at all.

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Doing something for 800 years the same way is not necessarily right. It's habit. It only took us 200 years to fix it.

Just you wait -- once you guys do something worth copying I'll sure you'll be offended when it gets mutated and they tell you that you that had it wrong to start with ;)

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Just you wait -- once you guys do something worth copying I'll sure you'll be offended when it gets mutated and they tell you that you that had it wrong to start with ;)

In some strange way, we Dutch don't get arguments like these with our old colonies? ;) Maybe, we should stay on topic and ask ourselves why some English speaking individuals write Meßsucher, instead of Messsucher... I realy like those three sss in the word. :)

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