I spent yesterday investigating the mono imaging capabilities of a standard Lumix S5 when set to L.Monochrome.D; a higher contrast black and white setting. I also had the EVF set to show only monochrome. It was a fun experiment requiring me to ignore or disregard color in scenes. I allowed the camera to add a little bit of "grain" to the mix. Lumix S5 + Voigtlander 58mm f1.4.
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You really need to straighten your lines...be more architectural instead of a snapper
ReplyDeleteRoy Benson
No thanks. I hate traditional architectural photography. Thanks for you input though.
ReplyDeleteI thought you ditched your Panasonics. It's hard to keep up with what camera's are in the stable or out in the pasture.
ReplyDeleteI have my Panasonic GX1 equipped with a Panasonic 20mm f1.7 as my carry around B/W camera. Not SOTA by any means, but gives me pleasing images.
Eric
Lovely shots, Kirk. My favorite is the first one, the closer angle with the wire fence in the foreground.
ReplyDeleteL.monochrome.d is the major reason I bought a GX9 several years ago and most of the time I have the camera set to that, with slight increases in the contrast. Takayuki Tochio, the brilliant (in my opinion) and obsessed Panasonic imagining engineer who developed the l.monochrome.d preset, spent an inordinate amount of time shooting roll after roll after roll of Tri-X on some old analog Pentax SLR's, to figure out what he liked about old-school black and white, and how it might possibly be translated into a digital preset. Among his fascinating conclusions were that the qualities many associate with both Tri-X and traditional black & white photography, came in large part not from the negatives that a particular camera + film could produce, but rather how they were printed, either on good paper or in very good quality photo books. I think there's a lot to be said for all of that.
Just one other thing. The Voigtlander 58mm is really a wonderful lens.