Magenta/green colour cast?

[Terao]

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Leica fora has got me looking at blacks produced by the R-D1. Have to say that in bright sunlight there is an ever so slight cast 😱

e.g.

Hey, we even have a little chromatic abberation going on 😀 The lens certainly isn't as inky black as it should be...

Now, is it my camera or choice of lens (a Jupiter 9 in this case) or is this a general feature of the Epson? I really don't care as I shoot very little colour anwyay but I didn't want us feeling left out in this forum 🙂

I apologise in advance for posting a picture of hulking behemoth of an SLR lens...

 

[madmaxmedia]

It looks reasonably fine to me (nothing at all like some of the M8 photos.) If anything, exposure rather than color cast? If exposure was auto and center-weighted on the lens, black lens barrel is going to likely result in over-exposure to some degree.

The lens barrel is also reflective, and the lighting is going to affect how it looks.

Of course, I don't have the actual lens, so maybe the photo really does look horrible, I can't tell.

 

[iml]

I've taken an awful lot of pictures with my R-D1s in the last couple of months, can't say I've noticed colour problems (I do mostly shoot b&w, but some colour too, with a CV 35 Ultron or a Canon 50/1.2). If there is a problem, it must be pretty minor, and nothing like what we're seeing, sadly, with the M8.

Ian

 

[Gid]

If you've metered off the lens, then it will turn it grey. If you photograph a predominantly black object you have to dial in -ve exposure compensation, the same as you do when you photograph snow only in the other direction.

 

[Sparrow]

The rd1 is starting to look like a bit of a technological triumph now, and a bit of a bargain, perhaps it could still be the start of something special if CV and Epson have their ears to the ground.

 

[Terao]

This was a slightly tongue-in-cheek post 🙂

Mainly to reinforce the warm and fuzzy feeling I have about my imperfect fundamentally flawed technological triumph of an R-D1 😀

 

[pfogle]

This was a slightly tongue-in-cheek post 🙂

Mainly to reinforce the warm and fuzzy feeling I have about my imperfect fundamentally flawed technological triumph of an R-D1 😀

Well, you got me <LOL> - is it April already?

If you did want to look for the magenta cast, you'd have to look at materials - I think it's the dyes that reflect the IR.

 

[Terao]

Have to say that I have been a little disappointed with black rendition in colour shots but I've stopped worrying now...

 

[Jim Watts]

The rd1 is starting to look like a bit of a technological triumph now, and a bit of a bargain, perhaps it could still be the start of something special if CV and Epson have their ears to the ground.

I would buy a second one tomorrow even at 6.1mp if they were to make an R-D2 with the wider angle field of view in the viewfinder of the M8.

Plus (although I have had no real problems with my R-D1) proper ongoing support from Epson. But I don't think it's going to happen.

 

[Sparrow]

I would buy a second one tomorrow even at 6.1mp if they were to make an R-D2 with the wider angle field of view in the viewfinder of the M8.

Plus (although I have had no real problems with my R-D1) proper ongoing support from Epson. But I don't think it's going to happen.

I had my tongue in my cheek a bit; and while Epson look to be incapable of providing the customer service required CV may be

 

[Adam-T]

no need for a leica viewfinder / RF, CV have already done it with the Zeiss Ikon - what we need is an R-D1 upgrade plan which would give us the Ikon Rangefinder 🙂, shouldn`t be impossible, a new top panel and RF unit 🙂 may not even cost the earth as surely Epson must be tired of re-calibrating numerous R-D1s by now ! .