mmradman Posted November 19, 2021 Share #21 Posted November 19, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) Must give it a try, makes having dedicated colour camera redundant if mono is primary interest. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 19, 2021 Posted November 19, 2021 Hi mmradman, Take a look here New work with my M10 Monochrom -any questions?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
geoffreyg Posted November 21, 2021 Share #22 Posted November 21, 2021 On 11/18/2021 at 7:04 PM, mmradman said: Must give it a try, makes having dedicated colour camera redundant if mono is primary interest. That is both a useful idea, and also ironic: imagine a color scene that attracts, one that stands out from conventional experience. I wonder how AI would handle that... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted November 21, 2021 Share #23 Posted November 21, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, geoffreyg said: That is both a useful idea, and also ironic: imagine a color scene that attracts, one that stands out from conventional experience. I wonder how AI would handle that... Maybe small demonstration…once I manage to get near my computer or iPad, phone is a bit if bottle neck when it comes to image upload. Edited November 21, 2021 by mmradman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted November 21, 2021 Share #24 Posted November 21, 2021 Original M246 with Summilux 75mm. The brick wall coloration is close to original. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/326269-new-work-with-my-m10-monochrom-any-questions/?do=findComment&comment=4317694'>More sharing options...
Leica Land Posted November 22, 2021 Share #25 Posted November 22, 2021 Hi John, when I read the title I am expecting B&W photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2021 Share #26 Posted November 22, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Leica Land said: Hi John, when I read the title I am expecting B&W photos. It’s a Photoshop filter. Adobe Photoshop Colorize AI filter Edited November 22, 2021 by Guest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ricard Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share #27 Posted November 28, 2021 Advertisement (gone after registration) On 11/21/2021 at 11:05 PM, Leica Land said: Hi John, when I read the title I am expecting B&W photos. Well the title didn't actually lie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ricard Posted November 28, 2021 Author Share #28 Posted November 28, 2021 On 11/21/2021 at 2:58 PM, mmradman said: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! The upper left corner has the same purple cast that a lot of my colorized Monochrom shots have. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted November 28, 2021 Share #29 Posted November 28, 2021 9 hours ago, John Ricard said: The upper left corner has the same purple cast that a lot of my colorized Monochrom shots have. Indeed, however few of the bricks in top left have in reality slightly bluish/dark purple tinge so the AI probably took it to the extreme. From few conversions I performed there is tendency to “pick up” trace of odd colour and to create slightly distorted colour image, images with sky and clouds sometime turn winter scene into summer. It is obviously no real substitute for colour especially with minimum post processing I prepared to put into it. Couple of thing are certain, good resolution of the mono sensor is preserved and colour effects are “creative” and can produce unique mood images. In some sense remind me of old 1970s colour negative films they would be perhaps developed and printed slightly off, end result can be pleasing, also presets provide nice options. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustwest100 Posted November 29, 2021 Share #30 Posted November 29, 2021 On 11/28/2021 at 10:39 AM, mmradman said: Indeed, however few of the bricks in top left have in reality slightly bluish/dark purple tinge so the AI probably took it to the extreme. From few conversions I performed there is tendency to “pick up” trace of odd colour and to create slightly distorted colour image, images with sky and clouds sometime turn winter scene into summer. It is obviously no real substitute for colour especially with minimum post processing I prepared to put into it. Couple of thing are certain, good resolution of the mono sensor is preserved and colour effects are “creative” and can produce unique mood images. In some sense remind me of old 1970s colour negative films they would be perhaps developed and printed slightly off, end result can be pleasing, also presets provide nice options. Thanks for sharing this. Now I know what happens when I stop paying attention to photoshop updates for like a decade! You get Artificial Intelligence, which can somehow accurately describe my own intelligence on many occasions… 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted November 29, 2021 Share #31 Posted November 29, 2021 4 hours ago, augustwest100 said: Thanks for sharing this. Now I know what happens when I stop paying attention to photoshop updates for like a decade! You get Artificial Intelligence, which can somehow accurately describe my own intelligence on many occasions… I know the feeling 😉, if it wasn’t for the original pos4 I would miss this completely. In a way new software tool addresses GAS for several months or at least over Christmas, alternately may have been chasing next bokeh ball magic lens or another unicorn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FocusDot Posted January 22, 2024 Share #32 Posted January 22, 2024 On 11/8/2021 at 1:18 AM, John Ricard said: Nope. Photoshop > Filters > Neural Filters > Colorize. Done. It's that quick. Literally 60 seconds total. The result is uneven and I have had some weird colors produced by the filter, but sometimes, like you see here, the result is close to perfect. If you know how to select a color range and change the hue of that color, I think you could possibly create a color image that looks fine to the average eye. Note, these filters are still in Beta mode. Imagine how good this technology will be in 3 years. Sort of pointless to do this to M10 Monochrom files when you bought the camera specifically to create black and white images, but it is fun to play with. Ha. Imagine I did not know about this at all! Thank you very much - I have now played a bit with it and actually I am rather impressed - getting pretty decent (and useful!) results Tnx again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoramer Posted August 1 Share #33 Posted August 1 My result looks like an old postcard ... Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Leica M10M and 50mm Apo-Summicron (recolored with Photoshop Elements) 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Leica M10M and 50mm Apo-Summicron (recolored with Photoshop Elements) ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/326269-new-work-with-my-m10-monochrom-any-questions/?do=findComment&comment=5842055'>More sharing options...
panoramer Posted August 1 Share #34 Posted August 1 vor 5 Minuten schrieb panoramer: My result looks like an old postcard ... Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Leica M10M and 50mm Apo-Summicron (recolored with Photoshop Elements) Colored afterwards with Photoshop Elements 2020. One-Click-Function "alt cmd R" on Apple iMac Version. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted August 3 Share #35 Posted August 3 On 8/1/2025 at 9:44 PM, panoramer said: ...Leica M10M and 50mm Apo-Summicron (recolored with Photoshop Elements)... I like the 'Old Postcard' look! Which version of Ps Elements are you using? Philip. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted August 7 Share #36 Posted August 7 Hmm. Well, if I wanted color photos, I'd just pick up the M10-R rather than the M10-M. But what do I know? What's the gain of using a monochrome camera to create color photos? Other than to prove that it can be done, of course. G 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Miller Posted August 10 Share #37 Posted August 10 On 8/7/2025 at 12:25 PM, ramarren said: What's the gain of using a monochrome camera to create color photos? Other than to prove that it can be done, of course. I think of it as the counterpart to B&W conversions of color shots. Generally my shooting is either with a color M or a Monochrom M. Sometime when shooting my Monochrom I see an image that calls for color. This tool lets me capture it (or at least an approximation of it). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen.s1 Posted August 10 Share #38 Posted August 10 Pano? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramarren Posted August 12 Share #39 Posted August 12 On 8/10/2025 at 5:27 AM, Luke_Miller said: I think of it as the counterpart to B&W conversions of color shots. Generally my shooting is either with a color M or a Monochrom M. Sometime when shooting my Monochrom I see an image that calls for color. This tool lets me capture it (or at least an approximation of it). Hmm. That analogy doesn't work for me. I did B&W rendering of my color cameras' raw data because there were no B&W digital cameras when I started doing it, and rendering to monochrome from a color dataset is a simple reduction of the data as its basis. It lent certain advantages too: you could simulate the action of B&W filters in rendering the channels differently. Going the other way ... colorizing B&W images ... is essentially adding information that you're making up out of nothing but your imagination. There's no color data in the B&W file, you have to add data to it to create a color rendering. But if colorizing B&W produces results that you're pleased with, nothing wrong. It just seems a little odd to me. I tend to think of photography as recording and subtracting away things that distract, rather than building up "fictitious" or imaginary information that wasn't recorded in the first place. G 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgh Posted August 15 Share #40 Posted August 15 On 8/10/2025 at 8:27 AM, Luke_Miller said: I think of it as the counterpart to B&W conversions of color shots. Generally my shooting is either with a color M or a Monochrom M. Sometime when shooting my Monochrom I see an image that calls for color. This tool lets me capture it (or at least an approximation of it). While a fun novelty it’s so far off base from reality I can’t imagine using it this way. Isn’t the point of a mono camera to let go - like truly let go - of the impulse to render in color? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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