Shooting with L1

[martano]

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I would like to know what kind of Film mode you set when shooting on D3/L1? Color or B&W.

I'm having good shoots with dynamic mode but in some cases a little bit dark.

I'm glad to hear some comments.

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[Bo_Lorentzen]

Per the suggestion of several people in this forum I'm using the My Film mode set to

 

Contrast -2

Sharpness +2

Saturation +1

Noise Reduction -2

 

This seems to create agreeable images.

 

 

Bo

 

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[leonpro]

These "modes" don't carry over to RAW files, right?

[dugby]

I'm finding that the AUTO whitebalance is not as good as selecting a manual WB setting.

 

Anyone else notice this on the D3 and L1...images?

[spylaw4]

I'm finding that the AUTO whitebalance is not as good as selecting a manual WB setting.

 

Anyone else notice this on the D3 and L1...images?

 

I find that in general with the V2 firmware, Auto WB is fine. I rarely have to re-balance the RAW file, unless I'm shooting with a peculiar combination of lighting.

[cluso]

Hi there,

I've had a bit of a play with these settings as well. With the L1 the colours a quite strong. For normal photographs I set the saturation to -1 or -2 and sharpness to +1. At high ISO (800, 1600) I use sharpness -1 or even the minimum to reduce the noise.

 

The dynamic modes give good results when appropriate, but as a standard setting they are quite full on I think. To me it feels like they do more than just adjusting the saturation etc., it's a completely different interpretation of the colours.

The B/W modes are really good as well. I often use them instead of converting the raw data to black and white.

 

leonpro: The RAW data cannot be affected by these settings.

 

The automatic white balance works perfect in normal conditions. When there are different light sources at the same time I find I sometimes have to use the manual setting.

 

The setting you choose also depend to some extend on the lens you use. For example, with the 60mm Leica R lens, the photographs turn out quite a bit sharper than with the 14-50mm zoom lens, and also the colours are a bit different (in a positive way). For the R lens I would use less sharpening than for the zoom.