Lightroom 2015.8 and the Leica M10
I don’t have an Leica M10 yet but have been downloading lots of RAW files that various people have been posting. If you have been looking at Leica M10 images and think the skins tones look wrong then its because the person processing the images has not used Lightroom 2015.8. The Adobe profile built into this version of Lightroom fully supports the M10 and gives wonderful images with no work. If the skin tones are still wrong then its likely your using the old embedded profile which you can change in the calibration section in Lightroom’s develop module.
With the RAW’s that people have kindly posted I have been able to get in lots of practice processing the images. This has also given me the opportunity to develop my own presets and a personal default setting for the images when they are first imported.
The camera is proving to be very popular and I have no idea how many days or months it will be before I receive it. So until then I have the time to perfect my Lightroom workflow and decide on what accessaries I want.
Superbowl
I spent a good part of Monday morning sleeping before eventually getting up to give Timmy the Greyhound a long lunchtime walk.
The reason of course was Super Bowl LI. Watching this in the UK means a very late night / early morning. I was supporting the Falcon’s and could not believe they did not run more time off the clock and also get that field goal towards the end, but instead give up easy penalties and get pushed back out of field goal range before giving up the ball. I still thought they would win but Tom Brady showed why he is one of the best quarterbacks of all time. It was a stunning end to a great season.
I have a lot of respect to wildlife and sports photographers, your carrying a lot of very heavy glass and its tricky to anticipate the action to get the shot you want.
It reminded me of some sports photography I did many years ago. This was shooting our local American football team the Lincoln Bombers. Shooting from the side line is tricky and occasionally risky and you take your life into your hands.
In those days I was of course shooting Black & White film, so i’ll have to dig out the old negatives and get them scanned.
Oranges
The cupboard of preserves is starting to look a little depleted in the marmalade department. Last year was the second year of making marmalade, and that time we made double the amount to the previous year.
This year we will be making the same amount as it has just lasted the year, including being able to give a few jars away to friends and family.
Lunchtime Street Photography – Shopping on a Raining Day
It was a dull lunchtime earlier in the week as I walked around Lincoln with my camera. As usual I had my Leica M8 but instead of the 35mm lens I was shooting with the 50mm for a change. Set to f/8 and zone focusing it is often more luck then judgement that I get a photograph.
Zone focusing is something I keep practicing but if its too wet as most days are this winter then the camera stays in its bag. When I get my Leica M10 i’ll not be quite as precious, but getting used to the different field of view will be an issue. The Leica M8 has an APS-H sensor so a 50mm looks more like 65mm and the 35 more like 45mm.
I may end up walking the streets with a 35mm and a 90mm, with the 50mm lux (f/1.4) in my bag for when I go indoors and the light levels drop.
Lightroom Defaults
Over in the Leica Forums, a lot of users are complaining that either Leica or Adobe has changed some of the defaults when images are imported into Lightroom. Now ‘Enable Profile Corrections’ is switched on by default.
It seems may people are not familiar with changing Lightroom defaults.
Its very simple but it is camera specific. So import an image for the camera you want to set the defaults for. Select the image and go into the develop module, click reset to take it back to the original defaults, then hold down the option key and the reset button becomes a ‘Set Default’.
If you wish you can also make the settings camera specific, and also ISO specific. If you shoot certain fixed ISO’s like base 100 ISO and 1600/3200 for dark scenes, then this can be useful. This is buried in the preferences.
