Summicron Summilux Post-Processing

[ruilebreiro]

Hi,

I've read and seen about the wonderful tones and rendering of Summilux's and Summicron's (which i trully admire), among others.

I'm curious, which post processing do you do on these photos? (either digital or analog)

I mean, i guess it has to be very very tiny, othersiwe it may change significantly the global "soul" the lens priovides.

I'd love to ear about your experience.

Thanks,
Rui

 

[waileong]

Actually for colour film I think the choice of film has much more influence on the colours.

Velvia is way different from Sensia, and VC film is far different from NC film.

For colour, I would choose the film and have the lab print with no correction if my exposure was good.

For b&w, contrast control is all important, which I achieve through paper grades.

Films play a role, with old style films looking quite different from t-grain films.

 

[fbf]

Make sure to calibrate your monitor, scanner, printer first then talk about post-processing, otherwise you are wasting your time.

 

[Ronald M]

Yes start with equipment calibration or you are working blind.

Anything digitized needs sharpening. After that I try to limit things to what i would do in a darkroom, digital or scanned film. Contrast, density, burn dodge. After that only to make up shortcomings of the media.

 

[Tom A]

i do very little post processing - mainly because I dont know how to! Somewhere in the "ethernet" there is a large hard-drive holding all my attempts to do photoshop. I can open the damned thing and play with the toolbar, but after that they tend to go somewhere unknown!
My scans and Flickr stuff has minor contrast correction in Lightroom 2 to adjust to the screen rather than the darkroom. Nothing is done that could not be done in the darkroom.
Every time I look at my stuff on the screen I am amazed that I have come as far as I have in less than 23 month (my first Mac came in February 2007).