First, I'd like to thank Quentin for starting the Merrill thread that I tripped across last year. I've since acquired the triumvirate and despite their almost limitless limitations vis-a-vis my other cameras (you all know the list -- laughable battery life, glacial processing speed, poor DR ...), I am so happy I bought them since when you feed them the light they crave they stand toe to toe with my D800E and produce outstanding images. One thing I have never satisfactorily dealt with, which I see in Quentin's Thames shot is the magenta/green patchiness in the dark tones (the river here). I always find it distracting. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to mitigate this foveon artifact without otherwise harming the image?
Thanks,
Richard
p.s.: and no slight meant to the other posters of outstanding images on these threads, it's just that I happened across Quentin's posts first ;-)
Thanks,
Richard
p.s.: and no slight meant to the other posters of outstanding images on these threads, it's just that I happened across Quentin's posts first ;-)
Peter
Less pop, but still some crackle
I mean that the micro contrast now looks more like any other camera, but the pixel level sharpness is still high.
I have been playing around with the most recent Thames trial image, and decoded double size direct from SPP using the settings illustrated, with a tad more sharpening in Photoshop provides an image that looks very good at 80mp.
This is bearing in mind the fact I am using SPP on my business laptop, where I don't have the more advanced processing options I have available on my main imaging PC, such as PhotoZoom Pro to upscale, Neat Image NR, or various sharpening tools. These conversions (and the conclusions I am drawing from them) are thus very much interim and probably capable of improvement.
I'm not sure about the tree foliage or the slight blurring of the "Marriot" sign (in red, above the arch, centre-right) but then I have not completely wound down the NR in SPP. On the other hand, most of the remainder of the detail is exceptional and on a par with the Merrills.