Wayne Fox
Workshop Member
I'll admit I've never really not been frustrated with my IQ180. My first one had color cast problems so severe it required an LCC even with the DF/28, 45, and 55 combinations, and also with the Alpa even with the 70mm Rodenstock. they swapped it, but still not great, and one reason I gave up on the technical camera is I really didn't want to shoot an LCC with pretty much every shot. I could get away with it using the 70mm and 120mm rodenstock, although most of the time with the 70 I felt it needed it.
I still frequently get issues that are frustrating, especially when I want to do some major adjustments. It seems now if I have to work over a sky pretty heavily, I"m in trouble, even C1 can't seem to map the 8 sensors correctly. I get all kinds of problems with what appears to be very subtle vertical magenta banding, and the middle seam will almost always show up. If I move into photoshop and work the file some more, it gets worse so I find myself doing things to "fix" it.
Will a recalibration help this? Is it too much to expect to get a perfect density/color match where the sensors are joined? Does anyone else fight some issues even with the DF and color casts?
this is a small crop from a sky output from C1 - this is the middle seam, not over towards an edge. I'm also fighting the magenta blotchiness that you can sort of see in this. A lot of my web jpegs show this in grey skies.
I still frequently get issues that are frustrating, especially when I want to do some major adjustments. It seems now if I have to work over a sky pretty heavily, I"m in trouble, even C1 can't seem to map the 8 sensors correctly. I get all kinds of problems with what appears to be very subtle vertical magenta banding, and the middle seam will almost always show up. If I move into photoshop and work the file some more, it gets worse so I find myself doing things to "fix" it.
Will a recalibration help this? Is it too much to expect to get a perfect density/color match where the sensors are joined? Does anyone else fight some issues even with the DF and color casts?
this is a small crop from a sky output from C1 - this is the middle seam, not over towards an edge. I'm also fighting the magenta blotchiness that you can sort of see in this. A lot of my web jpegs show this in grey skies.
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