First let me say hello to everyone here. At one time in life I was a very active member when I had more free time. With a growing business, you are forced to do less of what you love and more management, accounting, expansion strategies, etc. Add to this, 3 teenagers and a wife who says she isn't "high maintenance" but we all know better....... : )
Since Steve has not commented on these images and we have a trade show (Imaging USA) beginning today in Atlanta, I thought that I should step in and explain a few things.
1) We decided to shoot a location with extreme contrast. We wanted daylight and continuous internal light. We wanted to show an image that was not perfect, as most of our shooting situations are not as controlled as the tests that I have seen from multiple sources. This location gave us the severe situation where I would really need to lean on the Dynamic Range of the camera capturing it.
2) We pushed the system and captured outside of the image circle on many of the shift and fall images. These images are NOT the perfect shooting scenario. I would not push it this far if I wanted to create the most perfect image for reproduction. But this is what we wanted to do. You get "perfect" images form the manufacturer. You get images from other sources that you really can't make judgements due to tight control of any result where they system might fail. These images show you what is under the hood. These images show you what this system can and can't do.
3) The one area I would have changed in hindsight: As the sun dropped in the day, we did not adjust the exposure accordingly. Some of the later shots are under-exposed more than I would have preferred. We will change this on the next test.
I am not a scientist nor claim to be. I don't claim to be the "smartest man in the room" nor want anyone to think that. CI is a straight and honest company trying to give our customers the most unbiased knowledge and information that you can get in the marketplace. With that said, have fun with the images. I do not agree that you can't make proper deductions from this test. In fact, I think that you can get more real world info from this test instead.
And let me finish with my appreciation of this forum, its members, and our esteemed moderators. My lack of posts do not represent how I feel about this incredible source of information and group of individuals.
Dave Gallagher
CEO, Capture Integration