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In camera black and white JPG with contrast and filter settings

Started Oct 10, 2021 | Discussions
Herlein Regular Member • Posts: 140
Re: In camera black and white JPG with contrast and filter settings
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I have Monochrome JPEG plus RAW as a custom setting on my two M6 Mark II’s. As someone that studied photography in college with B&W film, I love seeing the world that way. I am always amused when I compose what I would think would be am amazing B&W shot to find it doesn’t do anything for me when I see the screen / EVF. It reminds me of how much harder it is to take a great B&W image. But when you do get that wow shot it reinforces the power of monochrome. Like the one you posted!

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Jeff Peterman
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Here's a couple I salvaged from my 8x10 prints that were kept and scanned. I wish I had the negatives

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Re: Why in camera?

Jeff Peterman wrote:

I used to buy B&W film in bulk and load my own cannisters. I has thousands of negatives, lots of contact sheets, but not many prints. When I left home and moved from the UK to the US, I left everything nicely boxed at my parent's house. About fifteen years later, they moved - they told me not to worry, they'd saved all my photos. By then, I was in a house, with lots of room, no plans to keep moving around, so I planned to collect them all and start going through the negatives. On my next visit, I asked for the box and was given one much smaller than I remembered. I opened it up and found they had saved my photos, and contact sheets - but they'd thrown away all the negatives!

Ouch!  So sorry to hear about the negs.  I have binders and binders of them.  I might have to go through them again someday (yeah right, right after I get caught up going through all of my digitals, LOL!  ).

I rolled my own too.  Kept the film cans in the freezer.

I worked at the University Photolab, so had lots of (free) access. 

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Jeff Peterman
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Re: Why in camera?

I ran mine, but we were a small college (Chelsea College, part of University of London) so we had a small darkroom with limited equipment. I fought for a year to get the funds to upgrade to a colour enlarger and it finally arrived the year after I graduated. I checked it out on a visit a year later and found the darkroom pretty trashed because no one was willing to manage it.

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StrugglingforLight Regular Member • Posts: 126
Re: In camera black and white JPG with contrast and filter settings
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Bejersey wrote:

and a crop. The M6 II has amazing resolution

Thanks for looking

Rick

Do you recall what contrast and filter setting were used for this image? Can you share it? Anyone else have a custom monochrome jpg style they wouldn't mind sharing?

Would be nice to get close to Leica's Monochrome High Contrast rendition.

Thanks.

Bejersey
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Re: In camera black and white JPG with contrast and filter settings

I don't remember

Rick

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