The purple cast

[MP Guy]

This was shot today at the Downtown Greek deli in Portland. The 2 purple shirts you see are actually black which is the uniform color.

 

[rool]

Wow! The QC of the RD-1 wasn't that bad after all...

 

[enochRoot]

wow...i think the word "cast" is an understatement!

 

[OldNick]

Jorge, what am I seeing above the tall guy's head?

Jim N.

 

[JohnM]

That is another flaw in the M8's sensor.

It occasionally shows a toy octopus on people's heads.

 

[wongyboi]

Wait wait wait....

Okay I understand the whole purple cast issue witht eh Leica M8, what I would like to know is...why that man has an octopus on his head!

EDIT: Darnit, JohnM ^ beat me to it. And OldNick

 

[sevres_babylone]

Wow! The QC of the RD-1 wasn't that bad after all...

Let's not get carried away...

And by the way, what colour was the octopus.

 

[dadsm3]

Dumb question Sevres, everybody knows octopi can change their colour to their immediate surroundings.....

 

[MP Guy]

the octo is purple and not black. so the purple casting only applies to the shirts. It is the restauraunts mascot.

 

[Issy]

eeeewwwwww...... you made me "ink" myself. 🙂

So black looks purple, and purple looks purple? That's just scary.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

the octo is purple and not black. so the purple casting only applies to the shirts. It is the restauraunts mascot.

So "purple cast" is not an accurate way to describe it, then? The picture is not all purple.

The purple is not a "flaw" but a feature. A very unwanted feature.

Just like the "blue cast" on white clothing when shooting without a UV filter on film. The problem is, Leica didn't add "black fabric" to their list of brick wall shot tests. Whoever their consultant(s) was(ere) helping them out with this project, they should fire him (or her. Oh, who am I kidding; him)

 

[ywenz]

the octo is purple and not black. so the purple casting only applies to the shirts. It is the restauraunts mascot.

That's why this bug is so crippling. Do you color correct the octupussy or the shirt? What about that spatula on the counter? .... :bang: :bang:

 

[jlw]

Let's not get carried away...

Well, if you found defects in your R-D 1 during the warranty period, Epson generally said, "Oh, you too, huh? Okay, send it back and we'll send you another one."

Meanwhile, when you find your Leica M8 occasionally causes purple octopi to appear on your subjects' heads, Leica says that this occurs in only a small minority of cases, and is actually an indication of the high quality they achieve by omitting the purple-octopus-blocking filter from their sensor, and the effect actually might be quite useful for creative photography of purple octopi, but if it still bothers you then sometime in the future they will release a fix which will require you to update your firmware and pay for 6-bit coding of all your Leica lenses and install a special purple-octopus-blocking filter on each lens...

 

[Athena]

If you look at the reflection of the shirts in the chrome trim on the top of the counter - it is also purplish. Similarly with the hair of the fellow on the other side of the counter in the OOF zone.

As to the shadows in the folds of the woman's shirt - they seem "off" too - but that could just be that digis don't do grey tones very well....

Of course this is all affected by the fact that it is a post of a jpeg and is being viewed on my screen which is not "color corrected"....

 

[ywenz]

Of course this is all affected by the fact that it is a post of a jpeg and is being viewed on my screen which is not "color corrected"....

Color corrected screen is overrated. If you're not printing the image, you dont need to color correct your display. You know the purple shadow is "off" because relative to the grey counter, it IS purple..

 

[MP Guy]

Good point ywenz, Which do you color correct if you don't remember the colors? I gues you need to hand in the prints and wait for the client to say My dress was blck not purple.

 

[Diggin99]

All I can say is.....ok...I am at a loss for words.......

Nancy

 

[RayPA]

at least the white balance looks good. otherwise...I'm with Nancy: speechless.

🙂

 

[ampguy]

White balance

White balance

Jorge were you on AWB or manual set? Are colors of everything else in the photo relatively accurate?

This was shot today at the Downtown Greek deli in Portland. The 2 purple shirts you see are actually black which is the uniform color.

 

[ampguy]

Hi Jorge

Hi Jorge

OK, so I fixed it, turn down all the knobs on your monitor, and the shirts do go black 😛

This was shot today at the Downtown Greek deli in Portland. The 2 purple shirts you see are actually black which is the uniform color.