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After shooting with an M10 and converting color images to B&W for the past 7 years, I recently acquired an M10 monochrom.  Shooting with a 50/2 Apo, I can describe the images as "creamy" and having a medium format look.  It's a change when you can only view and take images in B&W.  

This past weekend, there was a street performer event in Roanoke, VA with the "Unicycling Unicorn" performing.  Jamey Mossengren from the mid-west U.S. has been all over the world performing his skills of juggling and riding a 20 foot unicycle. Adding colors to a monochrome image is part of the neural filter set in Photoshop.  Monochrom images are wonderful.  It's also interesting to experiment with adding colors to them in Photoshop.  You never know what the final result will be.  I look forward to shooting with the M10 monchrom for many years. It's certainly fun to obtain a unique look to street photos in monochrome and color. 

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It seems Adobe's neural net still has more to learn about shadows and flames.

Most of the colorized and 'restored' videos and images are far worse than the original black and white material.

An interesting exception is this puppet animation, where the original colors were known, and the resultant tone mapping is breathtakingly good.

I suspect AI models will get to this level for real world images within a few years.

 

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I love to mess with Photoshop Colorizing AI filter.

I was taking 10 photos made with M11M, colorized, then shown pairs to friends and family lying that "5 were taken monochrome and colorized, 5 were from iPhone, converted to black and white", and asked for - (1) choose the one you like more, (2) choose one looks more realistic, (3) which one is original, before been converted? 
Surprisedly, people were choosing in average 3-4 colorized photos of 10 as original and more natural. As my daughter said "It just looks right". 
 

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"When producing Art, no holds are barred." :)  

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I do it again ...

Leica M10M; 50mm Apo-Summicron; Photoshop Elements

The picture looks like an old postcard.

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