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I think you answered your own question!Victor
At the risk of exposing my ignorance , I don t understand why you would select an overcast capture for purposing of discussing IQ? The bluish color cast desaturates the image and makes it flat. Bare with me on how I would .................................cut........................................................to every image.
Lots of ways to accomplish the same things .
I am not posting this as a critique but I honestly don t understand what people are referring too as taking 10 minutes an image. What exactly would you be working on?
What is difficult to separate out ,when doing comparisons between raw processors, is the IQ that is being derived thru superior conversion algorithms ,differences in profiles and the conversion presets .
Ok feel free to have at my POV ..I just don t get it?
I selected a shot that needed a good raw processor to get the exposure, color, contrast etc. closer to what might be an interesting photo. I actually did "AUTO" for exposure and WB in LR... but no reference for Leica files. I assume with a profile/pre-set-magic sauce one would get a pretty good image to work with. I believe, in this file there is a pretty damn could file; IQ that is. But, well, we don't see it.
Bob's discussion, your comments etc all point to what is frustrating-a system that is not yet end to end complete.
Maybe this is the wrong rant. Maybe what is needed is careful adjustments in LR, saved as a pre-set, and then applied to draw out the best of the IQ.
Maybe I am expecting too much, that is, raw processing may remain an 'art' and each image needs tweaking. That's not what I hear from the Hasselblad/Phocus people, or the C1 (though I can tell you, my P65+ has a damn mind of its own sometime :ROTFL:
Well, no easy solution, but I still contend that S2 files are likely very good, maybe even great sometimes, but it's like pulling teeth to see it
Victor
PS What I said about color was correct; an overcast day IS a bluish cast day. You get that 'ghostly blue' feeling. The French even call twilight "l'heure bleue'
of course this was oposite, AM
Maybe Leica has it right; an overcast image should convey overcast. To do a WB and make look like 5500 maybe is WRONG?
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