I think this kind of thing maybe the reason I am finding I do more film work theses days than ever . . . . :watch:
Better living with chemistry, rather than digits
Keith
My head hurts. I need to load some film.
Your #1 is right. Or some other raw processor like Iridient's which has been revised to support this sensor technology.
#2 is a little off, that's simply the practical result of an incomplete processing operation.
Recalling the design spec of the EXR sensor, Fuji's sensor packs two photo sites closely-aligned at each location on the Cartesian grid of six million sites, offset at an angle to one another, one hi range and one lo range. They interpolate the values between near neighbors and output a twelve million pixel Cartesian array as the result to get their dynamic range. The instructions on how to do this are contained in the raw metadata, so it is encoded correctly in the DNG but Aperture doesn't honor all the information and extracts only the primary photo site matrix.
I could be wrong, but that's the way the data seems to read. I haven't sat down and decomposed the sensor data into components to check on it.
Many thanks Godfrey - you've been very helpful . . . the words 'too clever by half' spring to mind! (not you of course, but Fuji)
I make photographs with film because I like how it renders, but I prefer working with numbers. Remember that my college studies ended up with a Mathematics degree.
;-)
Well, I'm going to answer all of you at once. First of all, Godfrey - I completely understand now - My point 2 was wrong - there isn't anything wrong with the DNG files created by LR4 or Adobe digital converter . . . . . beyond the fact that, of my applications, they are the only ones which will read the full resolution.
Of course, I could succumb to film, as Robert and Keith suggest - but I've already tried that.
I could also succumb, and just move over to LR and photoshop and abandon Aperture.
On the other hand, I could just stick to Aperture, because it has the better organisation, the better printing and the better clone tool. I'm perfectly happy to use Lightroom as a DNG interim when Apple are too slow to support cameras. But in this case, despite appearances, it doesn't work. I can't really figure out whether it's Adobe's DNGs, or Apple's DNG support (and many other applications I might say), or Fuji's RAW format which is the culprit, and unlike Godfrey I don't have a maths degree.
There was no warning about this problem - but perhaps it's too much to expect there to be a warning - It might be interesting to go back to the X100 RAW files and see if there is the same issue . . . or go forward to the X1 pro RAW files and see if there is an issue there. I wonder how many people are gaily processing RAW files from the X10 without realising that they're only 6mp.
But I'm off to China next week, and I want a camera where I don't have to get into terrible complications to shoot RAW files.
So, I think this is the shortest love affair in my camera history - assuming my lovely dealer will take it back, then that's what I'll do - if not it'll be on ebay next weel
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