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I am new to Phase One. I was hoping this would be a good introduction, but I'm ten minutes into the video and the guy hasn't said anything. He just keeps repeating "infinity platform is robust". I think I'll rely on the written materials.
Sensor+ on the Dalsa CCD sensors was done via pixel pinning at the time of readout.I have never owned a back with Sensor+... are the results similar to downresing to a smaller file in post production, or are they much better?
Or come see the IQ4 in a private 1:1 demo where you won't have to hear about things that aren't relevant to your needs/wants/interests . We have offices in NYC and LA and are traveling with the IQ4 quite a bit in the coming weeks including LA, San Diego, Seattle, San Fran, Portland, Denver, and Phoenix. Info for Denver and Phoenix will be posted later today, but the rest are live now: Events & Training | Digital TransitionsI am new to Phase One. I was hoping this would be a good introduction, but I'm ten minutes into the video and the guy hasn't said anything. He just keeps repeating "infinity platform is robust". I think I'll rely on the written materials.
Duplicate reply .Duplicate post, but sure would like to see some of this sooner than later.
Noted. We'll see if we can get a brief video demonstrating that feature up in the next week or two.1. Focus peaking, so far haven't seen anything on that, and it's something that is a huge miss from the 3100 being CMOS and most other CMOS cameras even
iPhones have it. It would be nice to see how it's implemented, colors, amount etc.
ISO and dynamic range tests have not yet been possible. The prototype units that I've seen come through the country did not yet have final power management firmware and therefore had higher noise than the shipping unit will.2. Low light push, I haven't seen anything on this yet. Maybe it's just not a big need for most. But being able to shoot at ISO 400 and push the file 1.5 to 2
stops is important to me. Just yesterday, out in the field, shooting a scene that needed 1 to 5 seconds for water, had to be reshot at ISO 400 to stop the
leaves in motion due to the wind. The 3100 at 400 IMO pushed 1 stop is pretty much at the max and that's for areas in good light not shadows.
3. The Video talks about the different raw settings and mentions the 16 bit Low ISO setting, but then says it's only available at ISO base ISO, again, sure
would be nice to see a similar intelligence in the ISO 200 up 800 range.
An IQ3 100mp and IQ4 150mp will capture roughly the same amount of subject detail at f/16. That is, they will both be diffracted and the additional pixel count of the IQ4 150mp will neither help nor hurt the final rendered amount of detail.4. Diffraction, issues, nothing yet posted on this that I can find. Considering the best aperture range on the current 3100 is around F8 to maybe F11 (I often
need to get to F14 and F16 and pay a slight price with diffraction softness, what will the penalty be for F14 on the IQ4 150MP
For what you shoot (landscapes for fine art prints) I see very little value in Sensor+.5. Sensor Plus? really, I was greatly surprised that this was considered a "plus". Back the day of the IQ180, and sensor plus the 20MP output was better than
most if not all CMOS and or CCD 35mm cameras. Amazing details, up to around ISO 2K sometimes 3200. But now with 35mm cameras quickly
approaching 50MP and past, not sure if a great selling point on a 22K camera back is the ability to shoot at 37.75 MP. Even if it is 16 bit.
If you were expecting "vastly improved" ISO performance I think it's likely you'll be disappointed. I'm hopeful for ~1 stop of improvement at 100% pixelInstead again,
I had hoped to see a vastly improved full frame CMOS noise clinic due to the BSI chip.
The IQ4 doesn't disable dark frame, but rather it does something much smarter.6. No dark frame subtraction, again, would love to see if by turning this off, you are losing any amount of either DR. or shadow noise loss. The 3100 with the
fact that it can't do this (unless you are on a tech camera, go figure), has a huge gap in development from any other 4 year old or newer CMOS camera
as all of them allow you to turn off dark frame noise reduction. With the 3100, if you are out shooting in a 10 second or 30 second shot situation, it really
can become problematic as both the light and scene may change during the added 30 seconds of black out needed, and if you press it to 45 seconds,
it becomes a really big issue, not to mention extra drain on the battery.
Phase One traditionally relies on its partners (aka dealers) to provide this kind of detailed technical testing. We (DT) provide our own extensive testing and, more importantly, strive to provide any serious inquirer with options to do their own testing. Our current road trip does not include Arkansas, but if you have a handful of interested people down there together we're glad to arrange it. Alternatively in a couple months when customer orders are filled and our rental safe is full of IQ4 150mp we can arrange for you to test in your own back yard (proverbial or literal). We're very interested in what you think!Hopefully P1 is working on showing some example of some of these points in the future? or maybe they have, and I have not found the webinar that talks about it.
Hi Bill.Paul, as I understand it, Focus Peaking (or Focus Mask) is now available in Live View.