Let's see those Quattro Photos :D

[EastNeuk]

Letters

Letters

 

[GaryLH]

Around the area close to Piedmont Grocery Store.. Someone built this little lending library house on their front garden area. 😀

Gary

 

[GaryLH]

Some shots from yesterday.. These are all ooc jpgs that have been run thru my aperture workflow.

Monterey Fisherman's Wharf

Beach at Carmel, close to sunset

Gary

 

[mingkookoo]

Nice set Gary 🙂
Won an last minute ebay bid on a used dp2 Quattro and received it Yesterday. I have to say it seems quite a bit faster than my dp3m in general. Here is a quick jpeg with settings from the previous owner 😀
Hv to download SPP 6.02? to check out the raw files next week for sure.
The little guy from Toronto Humane Society:

black and white at iso800
ps. I think I'll shoot 21:9 exclusively with my dp2q

 

[GaryLH]

Thanks..

Congrats on the eBay acquisition 🙂

Yeah..get the latest spp...6.1

Your local human society sure looks nice.

Gary

 

[GaryLH]

Some things to note..

- The matrix metering on the Quattro does not do as good a job as the one on the Merrill.., I tend to use exposure comp a lot more..need to play w/ average metering more.
-- if u shoot in monochrome, u will c this issue more than color
-- while Merrill monochrome mode, just did it right, maybe Quattro better to go back to shooting everything in color..still deciding what is best. Spp on the otherhand does a good job of toning down the high contrast.
- while the ooc jpgs are far superior to the ones from the Merrill, they tend to be more contrasty to me.
- awb is better than on the Merrill, but not as good as my Fuji cameras
- af speed feels about double that of the Merrill, but not as good as even the Fuji cameras.
- spp will give u better control of those high contrast shots as well as lift those shadows
-- expose for highlights u want to retain and let spp lift those shadows

Gary

 

[mingkookoo]

Thanks for the tips Gary, have a great weekend !
Cheers 🙂

 

[Samouraï]

The BW looks naturally a bit too contrasty for my tastes. I'll remain with the Merrill cameras until I find a used Quattro somewhere down the road. Or an SD-Quattro is released that is so good that I can't resist (full-frame).

 

[GaryLH]

Converted raw tend to be less contrasty then the ooc jpgs.. Will do a raw convert for u.

Gary

 

[GaryLH]

OK -- here are converted RAWs from SPP 6.1. The only SPP setting change is -1 for contrast. This time there is none of my normal Aperture workflow scripts. This setting seems to give more tonal range to play with right out of SPP for the monochromes...

I tend to like it a bit more contrast and punchier, this is why I am OK w/ the OOC JPGs. But when I run things thru SPP, I normally set contrast to -1 so I can have more tonal curve to play with.

Gary

 

[Scheelings]

Gary

I'd print that one. Fantastic shot.

 

[GaryLH]

Thanks..so much
Gary

 

[EastNeuk]

Thanks..so much
Gary

The photograph of the beach is really lovely.

Something of the opposite scenes from over here:

 

[GaryLH]

Thanks..

Man does that look cold..the 3rd and 4th shots look good..

Gary

 

[EastNeuk]

Thanks, Gary. Regrettably, although the quality of the images may have improved in shots three and four, the weather did not.

 

[Samouraï]

Wow, beautiful work guys. Gary, thanks for posting those BW shots, the feel is definitely more my style than the ooc Jpegs. And that beach shot, amazing. And then those snow shots near the water. Wow, this looks like a great scene-setting wide camera, looks like MF.

 

[noimmunity]

I'm surprised to see that the Quattro still has the magenta and green casts in cloudy skies that I noticed with the Merrill. Judging by the well-deserved accolades, however, it looks like it doesn't detract from the image. For the most part I feel that way about the Merrill, too.

 

[GaryLH]

Thanks Samourai and Jon.

Gary

 

[EastNeuk]

Thanks, Samouraï.

 

[GaryLH]

Some shots around the Pt Reyes area yesterday

Gary