I received a request to look at how Lightroom sharpens the Leica Q2 Monochrom (Q2M) files. Before I get into the graphs and numbers, I need to point out that there are three kinds of sharpening: Input, or capture sharpening Artistic sharpening Output sharpening The first has as its objective to get the file sharpness… [Read More]
Gelling the light source for better balance in B&W scanning
With light sources anywhere near D50, when scanning B&W negatives or positives, the green raw channels saturates well before the red and blue ones. It occurred to me that gelling the light source might even this out, and give me a higher SNR in the scans. I ordered a Rosco Minus Green #247 gel filter… [Read More]
You’re an old photographer if you can remember…
You’re an old photographer if you can remember: The smell of a freshly opened canister of Kodachrome 135. When those canisters were made of aluminum and had screw-on tops. Having a bunch of those aluminum canisters in your camera bag to hold various small bits. Buying 35mm film in 100-foot rolls and loading the cassettes… [Read More]
DNS maintenance in progress
Some of you have noticed intermittent unavailability of this blog with a 502 error message. My hosting service, which is currently running the domain name server for the site, says the problem is with their name server, and is unlikely to be fixed in the near future. They recommend switching to another name server. So… [Read More]
What’s the focal length of the Leica Q2 lens?
This is the 18th post in a series about the Leica Q2 Monochrom. You can see all the other posts in the series by looking in the Category List drop-down menu on the right side of the page. I was asked to calculate the focal length of the lens in the Q2. I don’t have… [Read More]
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