[Leica] DMR PAW #2

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Isn't the arrival of the DMR a great opportunity to revive the DLUG?


> From: Bill <bill@photobynelsch.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:57:24 -0600
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] DMR PAW #2
> 
> I wanted to see what would happen with the various saturations of color 
> with
> the DMR software and frankly, I'm not sure what I think.
> 
> The DMR has several modes of saving the images, DNG, TIFF, JPG Fine and JPG
> Basic.   With the JPG settings you have the opportunity to select 
> saturation
> (low, standard, high, B&W), contrast (low, standard, high) and Color
> management (standard RGB or Adobe RGB).  The first image of the Coors Light
> sign was with the standard saturation, standard contrast.  The second of 
> the
> flowers (which really looks blown out given the compression done by 
> Smugmug,
> look at the original size) was with high contrast and high saturation.
> Frankly, it is not very pleasing.  The third image is a JPG conversion in
> PS2 of the original DNG file, using standard contrast and standard
> saturation.  (The camera raw converter in PS2 defaults to the auto 
> positions
> and I switched those off when pulling it into PS2 so that nothing would
> influence the image out of the camera.
> 
> http://photobynelsch.smugmug.com/gallery/670405/1/29079949
> 
> The original DNG file for those with high speed connections is here:
> 
> http://leica-users.org/~nelsch/L4030019.DNG  CAUTION IT IS 19 MEGS!
> 
> I think my workflow is probably going to be all DNG all the time.  Except
> when I want to shoot B&W and I think I may agree with Nathan that I should
> probably shoot DNG and then convert in PS2.
> 
> And so it goes. 
> 
> Bill in Denver
> 
> 
> 
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