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Re: [OM] IMG: B&W, Danny with ice cream

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: B&W, Danny with ice cream
From: Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 10:00:17 +0200
Peter, you'll be our poet :-)

Have fun!

Amities
Philippe

Le 9 juin 2015 à 09:54, Peter Klein <pklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Thanks, Moose.  I love this image, and I am really loving this camera.  It 
> feels like coming home. At "low" ISO 320 (such as in the Danny/ice cream 
> picture), a bit like a cross between medium format and T400CN.  At higher 
> ISOs, kind of like Tri-X, but three stops better and not as grainy.  The 
> flexibility of the files is amazing. One noisy pixel is one little 
> pepper-grain, rather than an extrapolated blob.
> 
> Back in the wet darkroom days, I remember spending hours smelling fixer, 
> printing on Agfa Gevagam-8, dodging and burning with multiple polycontrast 
> filters and using ferricyanide bleach to get the look I wanted. And could 
> only get it when the lighting and exposure and development were exactly so. 
> The Monochrom has its quirks, but when I ask it to capture what I see, it 
> seems to say,  "Sure, work with me, and we can do that."
> 
> --Peter
> 
>> On 6/5/2015 1:27 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
>> 
>>    Lunch with good friends yesterday gave me a chance to exercise the
>>    tonality and dynamic range of my just-acquired,pre-loved Leica
>>    Monochrom.
>> 
>>    
>> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563@N04/18467283075/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/>
>> 
>>    Leica MM, 35mm Summicron at f/4, ISO 320.  Enjoy!
>> 
>> Didn't some guy pontificate about dedicated monochrome sensors, recently? Oh,
>> yeah, that opinionated Moose fellow.
>> 
>> This image, like the better of Tina's Monochrome images, is a nice 
>> illustration of what he was talking about in thesmoothness and subtlety of 
>> tonal graduations.
>> Nice portrait, to boot.
>> 
>> Self Referential Moose
>> 
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