Leica scenes/looks

[brickftl]

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I think I may start playing around with them, especially high contrast b/w as I think Leica probably does a good job with that conversion and I'm moving away from spending so much time in post especially using SilverEfex to process my b/w images.

Wondering what others make of regular and high contrast b/w, as well as other Looks and also Leica scenes.

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[Miltz]

I wish adobe would add them to their raw processing. Since the looks aren’t available in RAW, I simply can’t use them for anything serious.

[brickftl]

but you can choose film style - high contrast black/white, and I thought that the image would be processed that way so that when I download from the card that processing is preserved?

[brickftl]

I just snapped a few shots in the different film styles, and those styles were preserved as DNG files.

 

[Miltz]

11 minutes ago, brickftl said:

but you can choose film style - high contrast black/white, and I thought that the image would be processed that way so that when I download from the card that processing is preserved?

JPEG only. The Raw files don’t retain any of the Leica looks or film styles. 

[brickftl]

I don't agree. I snapped an image using high contrast B/W, then downloaded the image which is not JPG, but rather, DNG - Leica's RAW format. And open it in Photoshop brings it into Adobe Camera Raw. Clearly it is a RAW image and it retains the black/white processing.

This is also verified in Chris Nicholl's review on PetaPixel of the M11-P where he talks about using film styles on its RAW images which is where I got the idea to try it with my Q3.

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19 minutes ago, brickftl said:

I don't agree. I snapped an image using high contrast B/W, then downloaded the image which is not JPG, but rather, DNG - Leica's RAW format. And open it in Photoshop brings it into Adobe Camera Raw. Clearly it is a RAW image and it retains the black/white processing.

This is also verified in Chris Nicholl's review on PetaPixel of the M11-P where he talks about using film styles on its RAW images which is where I got the idea to try it with my Q3.

Sorry, but you are wrong. What you are seeing is a small JPEG preview embedded in the DNG file. As soon as you edit the DNG the JPEG preview will disappear.

[brickftl]

44 minutes ago, Corius said:

Sorry, but you are wrong. What you are seeing is a small JPEG preview embedded in the DNG file. As soon as you edit the DNG the JPEG preview will disappear.

yes and no. Attached is a screen shot of the b/w DNG image opened in ACR. The b/w image is open although at the bottom, file size says 8.7 mp

So if I want a full size b/w image, are you saying that can only be accomplished via the Fotos app? I'm not clear on this

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[clasami]

6 minutes ago, brickftl said:

yes and no. Attached is a screen shot of the b/w DNG image opened in ACR. The b/w image is open although at the bottom, file size says 8.7 mp

So if I want a full size b/w image, are you saying that can only be accomplished via the Fotos app? I'm not clear on this

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If this is a B&W DNG, why is the profile Adobe Color? The histogram also shows color channels.

Adobe LR/CR does not recognize Q3 color profiles. There is something like "Embedded" that can be selected - but the colors are different from the OOC colors.

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If you want a full size B&W (or any other film style) image you must use JPEG (or DNG+JPEG).

 

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4 minutes ago, clasami said:

If this is a B&W DNG, why is the profile Adobe Color? The histogram also shows color channels.

Adobe LR/CR does not recognize Q3 color profiles. There is something like "Embedded" that can be selected - but the colors are different from the OOC colors.

I guess using a black and white cat to test color v's black and white wasn't the best choice of subject

[brickftl]

actually it's a chihuahua

so you're saying that if I have the cam save both a DNG and JPG when shooting b/w, I'll get a full size b/w JPG?

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1 minute ago, brickftl said:

actually it's a chihuahua

so you're saying that if I have the cam save both a DNG and JPG when shooting b/w, I'll get a full size b/w JPG?

Oops, please apologise to your dog on my behalf

Yes, you'll get a DNG image and also a JPEG image based on the selected film style. You can set the resolution/size of the DNGs and JPEGs in the camera menu.

[brickftl]

actually now that I think about this (waking up my brain that was on auto pilot), of course a DNG isn't black/white since it's the entire digital file produced by the cam. So to have a full size JPG in b/w out of the camera, the camera has to create a b/w JPG from the full digital file. 

Here's a screenshot of the JPG opened in PS, plus screenshot of image sizse

 

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[brickftl]

oh, and that;'s my other chihuahua - he's tan and white