All taken with Leica Q.

A night heron just before 6:00 this morning.

At sunset,

MP 240 with Elmarit M 24mm 2.8

Hi.

I've just bought into the Leica S.  I got an insanely good deal on a new Leica S 100 year two lens kit so I leapt in (the 006) and I'm already shopping a 120 Macro as the next lens.

I've been shooting M8 and M-E for many years and I've come to really love C1 with those cameras.  They are always so much more beautiful than what I can do in LR.

But I'm finding very mixed results from the couple of shoot's i've done so far using the C1 rendering of images from the S.  The images are often too dark and I haven't been able to extract great results.  I do know it's not as officially supported, but is there anyway to improve the success rate ? 

I've had a quick look at Lightroom, and in many ways it's better off the bat, but it also seems to really struggle in certain situations as well.  C1 seems to noisier and a bit more random in the way it deals with red in skin tones (like on ruddier skin)

I've even looked at Phocus and Iridient.  I really like the Iridient rendering a lot, but it's very limited with it's local controls / adjustments.

Are there any othe roptions I should look at ?  Any other recipes to get better results ?  I do wish C1 just worked as well as it does with the M shots.

JB