Monochrom 246 hues

[CesBed]

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When I shoot with my Monochrom typ 246 using blue, selenium and sepia hues  I do see the hues correctly on display in camera but I do not see them anymore when I open the DNG files with Lightroom Classic or Photoshop....  It seems the files are interpreted as Monochrome files anyway. Does anyone has a clue about what is going on?

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[jaapv]

Hues are visible in the jpg output. The DNG is interpreted as Grayscale 

[a.noctilux]

Sepia or selenium hues ?

I see, these are kind of joke that I never use by now.

When I used in the past, my M246 can record two files, one DNG and one JPEG with hue of choice.

This last jpeg file could be seen, even if the hues are strange.

[pippy]

On 9/3/2022 at 3:38 PM, CesBed said:

When I shoot with my Monochrom typ 246 using blue, selenium and sepia hues  I do see the hues correctly on display in camera but I do not see them anymore when I open the DNG files with Lightroom Classic or Photoshop....  It seems the files are interpreted as Monochrome files anyway. Does anyone has a clue about what is going on?

As Jaap said in post #2 the DNG will be interpreted in monochrome.

If, however, you would like to retain TIFF quality yet wish to obtain an image with some sort of Sepia / Cyanotype / Albumen (etc.) hue and haven't quite yet worked out how it may be achieved then here is one simple way to do so in Photoshop with some examples by way of illustration;

Process-out the DNG file as usual. Open image which will appear as a monochrome photo but have it as an RGB file and select 'Levels';

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In the 'Channels' dialogue box choose from Red, Green or Blue. By way of an example - and exaggerating greatly for effect(!) - I will select Red. Using the slider will alter the hue of the image. In this case sliding the cursor to the left from 1.00 to 1.50 will 'add' red. Sliding a similar amount to the right (1.00 to 0.50) will 'add' cyan;

Once the image approaches the look you are after further fine-tuning can be tweaked by using the sliders in the Hue/Saturation dialogue box as well as the usual Highlight/Mid-Tone/Shadow/Contrast stuff. The image below is quite similar in tone and 'contrast range' to numerous examples of Albumen Prints I have which were printed in 1868;

Hope that might have been of some interest to anyone!

Philip.

Edited September 14, 2022 by pippy