Bill Caulfeild-Browne
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re: Fun With Sony _____
RDG, I love your bunny!
Bill
RDG, I love your bunny!
Bill
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Bill, I left this image soft quite deliberately - I felt it imparted a slightly mystical feel.There is something about the Sony that I really don't like and this picture shows it well. Perhaps I spent too much time with the DMR (16-bit, no AA), but the pictures from the Sony just look soft and flat to me. The P45+ picture highlights just how much is missing. It's not the glass because I'm using the same lenses as. So far, no amount of post processing has been able to bring out what I think should be in the files.
Well seen regardless. I'm not picking on your image in any way, just voicing a frustration with the camera. Some how I expected a lot more from 25 mp.
Yes, it's a telegraph wire, not an artifact! I'd consider cloning it out if the shot was worth printing. Or cropping a bit off the top.I am seeing a line in the top of the image, do you see that as well?
Joe
Most interesting! I just came back from a month long trip from Ontario across the Great Plains to Wyoming and then home via Saskatchewan and the north shore of Lake Superior. We saw Sandhills in the hundreds on the Cdn prairies and then several more hundred in Ontario near the north shore of Lake Huron.Bill CB,
Rare to approach jackrabbits, even in bad weather, where a 200mm works, although cropping the A900's mp's is a useful tool as well.
Sandhill cranes have a special place as well, we've had a breeding pair nearby in western Nebr. since 2005, the first confirmed nesting since the early 1900s. Biologists suspect the breeding pair are from the western flocks, working east, rather than the eastern birds that stage each March on the central Platte River, bringing birdwatchers from around the world. Friday, on a quick trip into the northern Panhandle, found a total of nine cranes on several wheat stubble fields, still showing the brown that nesting birds paint themselves with, so possibly at least two different family groups. Suspect there is more nesting going on than reported to date.
RDG
Now it looks fabulous, Bill, and in my opinion even surpasses the Phase shot, resized and webified as they both are.Here's a version with some contrast, clarity and sharpening added. (Previous shot was at C1 defaults only).
It can never equal the Phase shot of course - but the gear cost about 10% of the Phase system!
Bill
Thanks - though as you imply, "webbified" pix are very hard to judge. The Phase shot has way more detail on my 30 inch screen. The shot you see has no pp - just C1 defaults.Now it looks fabulous, Bill, and in my opinion even surpasses the Phase shot, resized and webified as they both are.
The Sony colors look much more realistic to my eye, but of course I wasn't there
No argument there! I really do like the Sony and on the whole it is the best 35 mm camera I've owned. I just feel like the images lack real color depth.The amazing thing is that at small print sizes, say up to 16 by 20, the Sony files really do give outstanding value!
Bill
IMO, that is that flat Mid-tone thing I've talked about here before. I've since solved it for color files and almost for B&W conversions.No argument there! I really do like the Sony and on the whole it is the best 35 mm camera I've owned. I just feel like the images lack real color depth.
I am no pro by any means but there is something off about the look I see with sony picsNo argument there! I really do like the Sony and on the whole it is the best 35 mm camera I've owned. I just feel like the images lack real color depth.
very interesting, would you share your mid-tone lift processed image, with the original image? thanksIMO, that is that flat Mid-tone thing I've talked about here before. I've since solved it for color files and almost for B&W conversions.
I now have a mid-tone lift action in my PS actions palette that was included in a set from Jeff Ascough that works well as a one click solution with minor tweaks in most cases with the A900 files. :thumbup:
Best 35mm color depth for me so far has been from the Leica M9. WOW!
Back to work ... 1000+ files to process ... Yikes!