digital vs film color

msbarnes said:
...For you color lovers that have switched to digital, has an APS-C camera filled your void? What about an M9?...
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I've also always preferred color of slide to color negative film. On digital, my experience is that you cannot get any color look that you want in post-processing. For a while I shot with the Ricoh GXR M-Module, and was reasonably happy with the color rendition only when I used Raw Photo Processor (RPP); but it required quite a bit of work on each image to get the color that I wanted. My feeling is that the M9/M-E have a unique color rendition that is more like slide film while CMOS sensor cameras produce a look more like color negative film. I remain unconvinced by the color rendition of the M240 and still prefer that of the M9.

Also, while the conventional wisdom is that the M9 is not good at high ISO, I've found that using the technique of "Shooting at ISO640 and pushing in LR5" makes the M9 into a good camera for night photography, of which the picture below, shot under mixed light including fluorescent and LEDs, pushed 4 stops to at an effective ISO of 5,120 on the main subject, is an example. (The series linked under my signature is shot with the M9).



M9-P | Summicron-28 | ISO 640 pushed 4 stops | f/4.0 | 1/60 sec

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