Guy Mancuso
Administrator, Instructor
Bob the back wall is what I meant sorry i drew outside the lines. LOL
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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 the back wall is what I meant sorry i drew outside the lines. LOL
Hi Bob,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
Are we sure about that?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
MarcGood 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.