santi-u
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Hi all,
i'm another happy user of a new RD1s. I'm enjoying it a lot, a great camera with many nice features and small "issues" that are not so important to make me think i made wrong adquisition.
There are all satisfactions and i'm not missing my recently sold 5D at all.
I'm trying to make familiar with the camera features, like film settings and with the Epson Raw developer.
When i bought it my thoughts were shooting mostly color so i would leave my M6 for b&w film.
Now, after two weeks i find that i'm using mostly b&w, in raw mode and monocrome for having all my workflow without color.
I like very much the espon colours, more filmlike than the Canon ones, but my moment and inspiration is now for b&w.
I also like very much the Epson raw developer for black and white, but i find is caotic for color. I don't like the interfaz design, the slowest workflow and how shows the white balance and tint even if the camera setting is "as shot". The Canon DPP was much better.
In any case, i think for b&w is good enough and perfect to view all the process in monochrome with all the film setting options created to emulate a filmy look.
It was till yesterday that i discovered the filter settings on the camera. I was trying it on the developer but now i think i would use raw+jpg in monochrome mode and set directly some filter from the camera menu. That's perfect for me. I'm seeing good results from the direct jpgs but i don't want to forgive the raw files, never know the utility i would give them.
As i said, i did not have any idea i could set the filters on the camera, so i made my own experiment and tried jpg with a yellow medium filter on the lens. That's a bit strange cause it is not film, we have a sensor with color captors and i'm putting an extra color on it (many work for the sensor 🙂, and also i think i'm reducing a bit of light also. Not a good idea but the results were'nt so bad.
Now my little worries are for finding a better developer for color. I've tried adobe camera raw but i don't like it very much either, maybe i'm not very comfortable with it. I was thinking in Lightroom or Capture One.
Another thing i will ask all of you is what kind of shutter release i will need for cleaning the sensor. Or maybe there's another solution, but there is some dust on it and would like to blow or clean if needed.
Thank you all and trying to learn from all of you.
Santi
i'm another happy user of a new RD1s. I'm enjoying it a lot, a great camera with many nice features and small "issues" that are not so important to make me think i made wrong adquisition.
There are all satisfactions and i'm not missing my recently sold 5D at all.
I'm trying to make familiar with the camera features, like film settings and with the Epson Raw developer.
When i bought it my thoughts were shooting mostly color so i would leave my M6 for b&w film.
Now, after two weeks i find that i'm using mostly b&w, in raw mode and monocrome for having all my workflow without color.
I like very much the espon colours, more filmlike than the Canon ones, but my moment and inspiration is now for b&w.
I also like very much the Epson raw developer for black and white, but i find is caotic for color. I don't like the interfaz design, the slowest workflow and how shows the white balance and tint even if the camera setting is "as shot". The Canon DPP was much better.
In any case, i think for b&w is good enough and perfect to view all the process in monochrome with all the film setting options created to emulate a filmy look.
It was till yesterday that i discovered the filter settings on the camera. I was trying it on the developer but now i think i would use raw+jpg in monochrome mode and set directly some filter from the camera menu. That's perfect for me. I'm seeing good results from the direct jpgs but i don't want to forgive the raw files, never know the utility i would give them.
As i said, i did not have any idea i could set the filters on the camera, so i made my own experiment and tried jpg with a yellow medium filter on the lens. That's a bit strange cause it is not film, we have a sensor with color captors and i'm putting an extra color on it (many work for the sensor 🙂, and also i think i'm reducing a bit of light also. Not a good idea but the results were'nt so bad.
Now my little worries are for finding a better developer for color. I've tried adobe camera raw but i don't like it very much either, maybe i'm not very comfortable with it. I was thinking in Lightroom or Capture One.
Another thing i will ask all of you is what kind of shutter release i will need for cleaning the sensor. Or maybe there's another solution, but there is some dust on it and would like to blow or clean if needed.
Thank you all and trying to learn from all of you.
Santi
