Guy Mancuso
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Bob the back wall is what I meant sorry i drew outside the lines. LOL
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Hasselblad FW Update R248
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You are correct..that ceiling is 35 feet from the point of focus at F4.8 and was very dark but at 100% there is a loss of detail...I think that this will be a last ditch setting for most of us.
Bob
Good news, the one pixel line was an anomaly ... I used my new 32 gig CF card and a freshly charged battery, and it disappeared.
Even better news was some available light 1600 shots I did early this AM .... this is really useable for my wedding work ... and I discovered something interesting while playing around with Phocus ... I used the B&W option in Phocus when converting it to a tiff .... which produced an unusably flat tiff file ... but when I opened it in PSCS4 and hit auto contrast ... it made a perfect B&W which I was unable to match by converting the color version of the same file ... and it had far less noise. Real magic there. That is going to really speed up my wedding work flow.
Even better news was some available light 1600 shots I did early this AM .... this is really useable for my wedding work ... and I discovered something interesting while playing around with Phocus ... I used the B&W option in Phocus when converting it to a tiff .... which produced an unusably flat tiff file ... but when I opened it in PSCS4 and hit auto contrast ... it made a perfect B&W which I was unable to match by converting the color version of the same file ... and it had far less noise. Real magic there. That is going to really speed up my wedding work flow.
Marc,
I hope to try the BW conversion you mentioned tonight on a few files. It is nice to have this additional ISO step after waiting this past year. Do you see and improvement across the board or only at 800/1600? I shot a few pictures last evening at 200 on the H3D II 39 and they were 1/2 stop under and looked awful when I raised them from DNG in PS CS4. I need to export as TIFF-16 and compare them.
Bob
I hope to try the BW conversion you mentioned tonight on a few files. It is nice to have this additional ISO step after waiting this past year. Do you see and improvement across the board or only at 800/1600? I shot a few pictures last evening at 200 on the H3D II 39 and they were 1/2 stop under and looked awful when I raised them from DNG in PS CS4. I need to export as TIFF-16 and compare them.
Bob
Marc,
I tried the Greyscale output from Phocus.
Here is Marc's conversion on an ISO 50 file...converted to 16 bit RGB then contrast corrected. You are right that the file imports as flat as can be...just like the scans from FLexcolor....very nice.
Bob
I tried the Greyscale output from Phocus.
Here is Marc's conversion on an ISO 50 file...converted to 16 bit RGB then contrast corrected. You are right that the file imports as flat as can be...just like the scans from FLexcolor....very nice.
Bob
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David Grover / Phase One
New member
Hi Bob,
Exporting to DNG will lose all the benefits of the extra stop ISO. The increase on the camera goes part and parcel with Phocus so you need to use both in combo for the benefit!
David
David,
I assumed as much but was testing a new lens...delivered to me an hour prior to sunset. Not a lot of time to unpack and run off a few shots. It is quite evident that DNG output is best for quick editing of shots for out of focus bad composition culling and not much more.
I will go back this morning and try to recover a few of the better shots with Phocus.
Thanks,
Bob
I assumed as much but was testing a new lens...delivered to me an hour prior to sunset. Not a lot of time to unpack and run off a few shots. It is quite evident that DNG output is best for quick editing of shots for out of focus bad composition culling and not much more.
I will go back this morning and try to recover a few of the better shots with Phocus.
Thanks,
Bob
Are we sure about that?
I exported an untouched 1600 file in both file formats, and they looked the same (????), and the exif info on both says 1600.
David Grover / Phase One
New member
What I mean is that the noise levels are likely to be much lower in the Phocus->TIFF conversion as opposed to Phocus->DNG->TIFF>
Although maybe Lightroom/CS4 is doing a better job now?
Although maybe Lightroom/CS4 is doing a better job now?
woodyspedden
New member
Marc
IIRC Hasselblad recently sent out a warning to not use the 32GB cards in the H3DII cameras. Am I wrong about this?
Woody
David Grover / Phase One
New member
The Issue was discovered to only effect the H3D50 and a firmware fix has already been posted on Hasselblad.com.
Users can update their own cameras via Phocus.
David
Users can update their own cameras via Phocus.
David
