More M8 snaps and Dotcom Garden prep…
Posted on February 11, 2007
Filed Under All, Photos, Technology, Dotcom Garden |
A neighbor’s trees made a pretty scene against the winter sky as Cassie and I made our way on our 1.8 mile loop this AM.
Then we were off to Dotcom Garden, where we dug the chicken manure - 1/2 sack per box, into the 3 planters we tilled yesterday. We also took a picture or 3 of Dotcom Garden, which we’ll be comparing to the Lumix pix of same.
Both cameras make 10.1 megapixel images, but the Leica’s electronics, sensor, algorithms et al. are a very different set of technologies. The Leica’s color palette can shift dramatically with just a small change in framing a picture (as I learned yesterday, when a slightly different camera crop turned a scene from mostly greens to mostly blues).
And the M8 is 1.0 product, which has already had a series of firmware upgrades (up to 1.09 in my camera), aimed at bugs, color and other issues. At some point we’ll put up an M8 gallery and a discussion of the camera and how I use it… I do note it has direct digital B&W creation like the Digilux II…
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[…] Then we moved to San Francisco, and I went first into photo editing, then working on the make-up desk, and then jumped to high tech.Tthe Leicas have sat in my closet since the early 90s anyway, only rarely coming out for a picture session. A Leica Digilux II appeared, and reminded us of those silvery Leica gray scales. But suddenly, as of a couple days ago, my old, beloved M lenses are out of the closet and on a camera body on my neck every morning and afternoon on my way to and from work, and I’m loving life - and the silky images that the combination of the Leica glass and the M8’s release 1.0 sensor produces. So, I guess it comes down to what look do you want in the photos you make… I am loving having the M lenses and the Leica tone ramps in my bag again…overpricing, hack and all… […]