This is a self-paced blog post. It's New Year's Day so I'm bailing on writing stuff. Nothing happened worth sharing. Just basic happiness and walking around with cameras. Make up your own captions if you'd like...
Has anyone else noticed that Michael Johnston is cranking out a lot
more content since he is now unable to moderate comments?
Nice to have fresh stuff to read with more consistency.
An unexpected advantage to moving onto a new platform.
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Have you shot much with Monochrome Leicas? Have seen images from the Q2 Monochrome that are very nice. Also some from the M series Monochrome bodies. Do you work with any of them or are you converting from full color?
I played with the original Kodak DCS 760 M monochrome digital camera and have played with the Leica M9 version monochrome. They are all very good and very detailed. My take is that buying a regular Q3 provides the added resolution to make very convincing conversions from color to monochrome without having to dedicate a very expensive purchase to one task. Plus, I always find that there is a lot of benefit to be able to shoot in color and they use Lightroom to make precise filtering for black and white through the HSL sliders. I'd by a monochrome Leica if I found an M240M (246) at a really good price. It would fit into the existing system for me. But a Q3M is too limiting ... for me.
I converted an existing LUMIX S5 to monochrome with that fella Mike Johnston used. The files are really lovely and the tones are rich. Not a big bite out of my budget and I use it enough to justify. But I also love the mono hc files from my SL2s. I would not sink the big bucks into the Leica monochromes.
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Have you shot much with Monochrome Leicas? Have seen images from the Q2 Monochrome that are very nice. Also some from the M series Monochrome bodies. Do you work with any of them or are you converting from full color?
I played with the original Kodak DCS 760 M monochrome digital camera and have played with the Leica M9 version monochrome. They are all very good and very detailed. My take is that buying a regular Q3 provides the added resolution to make very convincing conversions from color to monochrome without having to dedicate a very expensive purchase to one task. Plus, I always find that there is a lot of benefit to be able to shoot in color and they use Lightroom to make precise filtering for black and white through the HSL sliders. I'd by a monochrome Leica if I found an M240M (246) at a really good price. It would fit into the existing system for me. But a Q3M is too limiting ... for me.
That reply, just above was from me. Forgot to log in before commenting. Sorry for any confusion.
I converted an existing LUMIX S5 to monochrome with that fella Mike Johnston used. The files are really lovely and the tones are rich. Not a big bite out of my budget and I use it enough to justify. But I also love the mono hc files from my SL2s. I would not sink the big bucks into the Leica monochromes.
The last image is nice, well done.
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