Leica M Monochrom: best pics

urban_alchemist said:
As someone waiting to pick up my MM (I live in Israel, camera came from Germany, heading to meet it in France on Thursday) - anyone have any tips to avoid clipping the highlights? Do you shoot 1 or 2 stops under and then adjust in post, or do you wing it?
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I think that one or two stops is too much. I will set my M9M for minus 1/3 or minus 2/3, when I feel the need. When I don't see the need, I don't set any exposure comp. It's the same rule as for using filters: only use one when you need one.
 
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If you work with it enough you really do get to a point where you expose properly for the camera. I expose the same way I would for transparency film. As with trans film if you blow the highlights there is nothing there to pull back. The film is clear. It is not forgiving so you just need to be aware of it.
 
airfrogusmc said:
If you work with it enough you really do get to a point where you expose properly for the camera. I expose the same way I would for transparency film. As with trans film if you blow the highlights there is nothing there to pull back. The film is clear. It is not forgiving so you just need to be aware of it.
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That's Rob and Allen and now me supporting the same approach. I hate exposure compensation being fixed as you forget it just when you don't want it. And then if you don't use it all the time you get it wrong when you quickly activate it and go the wrong way. Ask me how I know. You don't forget it is this camera in your hand, and eventually its limitations are programmed into you, not the exposure compensation function.
 
Overlooking the Frenchmen's Coulee, At the Gorge, West of George (from Summer Archives)​



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MM -35mm Summicron
 
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