shawn
Veteran
While being stuck at home and bored I tried a quick comparison of the same (boring) subject shot with the R-D1 and M240. The R-D1 had a Rollei HFT 40mm on it and the Leica had a Elmar-M 50mm. Started at f2.8 (ISO200) using the Epson's metered shutter speed which I duplicated on the Leica. From there I shot full stops while adjusting the shutter. I didn't swap lenses as it was a little cloudy and the light kept changing so I shot f2.8 on each camera, then f4 and so on.
In LR I scaled the Leica images by 20% to get roughly the same FOV. For a starting point I applied the same preset to the RAW files (and used Auto WB in LR). The Leica files were considerably brighter like this (and it's meter was saying I was underexposed). I then tried tweaking exposure (-.25), contrast (35 points higher), saturation(-25), white (-49) and black (-25) levels to get more of a feel of the R-D1 shots. For color the preset had blue saturation at -6, which I took out of the tweaked versions as the Epson was more blue anyway and still is.
Epson R-D1 at f2.8
Leica M240 at f2.8 (same preset)
Leica M240 at f2.8 tweaked
Certainly not the same but closer to the feel of the Epson files.
This album https://www.flickr.com/gp/39387871@N06/233846 has the shots from f2.8 through f16.
Shawn
In LR I scaled the Leica images by 20% to get roughly the same FOV. For a starting point I applied the same preset to the RAW files (and used Auto WB in LR). The Leica files were considerably brighter like this (and it's meter was saying I was underexposed). I then tried tweaking exposure (-.25), contrast (35 points higher), saturation(-25), white (-49) and black (-25) levels to get more of a feel of the R-D1 shots. For color the preset had blue saturation at -6, which I took out of the tweaked versions as the Epson was more blue anyway and still is.
Epson R-D1 at f2.8
Leica M240 at f2.8 (same preset)
Leica M240 at f2.8 tweaked
Certainly not the same but closer to the feel of the Epson files.
This album https://www.flickr.com/gp/39387871@N06/233846 has the shots from f2.8 through f16.
Shawn
ranger9
Well-known
Interesting experiment. Thanks for sharing! I won't be buying an M240 any time soon (if ever) but interesting to know it would be possible to get a similar overall "look" to my R-D 1 images.
gray084
Newbie
Thanks for the post, Shawn! I was curious about this exact comparison of the R-D1 and m240 : )