Even better than the real thing

Foto.Feola.Friday for May 3, 2024

You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing, yeah
Give me one last chance
And I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance
To ride on the waves that you bring

Foto.Feola.Friday

I’m finishing up The New Golden Age of Black & White for Pentax Forums. The absolutely endless shadow detail is one of the things that’s truly striking about monochrome digital cameras. Here’s an image that I hope illustrates that. This first image is the RAW image saved as a JPEG; no editing whatsoever.

And here I’ve opened up the shadows in Adobe Photoshop Image/Adjustments/Levels

I hope you can see that not only are areas completely black in the top image easily visable in the second, but there is endless detail in these areas. The difference is so large that I find it hard to do much more than snapshots with color cameras these days; when I’m feeling like a photog I want the Monochrome in my hand.

Pentax K-3 III Monochrome, HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR RE lens set to 78mm, F4.5, 1/5000 sec at ISO 400

Oh, and since I was there, and there was a wooden fence…

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Sunday May 5th — About that time I lost an argument with an article I’d written the previous week