Just try to convince yourself he used a high-acutance compensating
developer, Winsor (though from what I heard, the F-30 is a devil to unload
in the darkroom)
:-)
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Winsor Crosby
Sent: 30 July 2006 18:02
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT dpreview on the F30 - you heard it here first.
I think that is what has bothered me about that Fuji sensor. If you look at
pix by average users on pbase.com they seem to alternate between really nice
low light shots and washed out looking daylight shots. To paraphrase that
old Pepsodent commercial you'll wonder where the RGB went. Maybe it is a
specialized low light camera unless in the hands of someone like you who is
willing to really learn how to use it and post process.
I appreciate your superimposed histogram in the one shot. It really is
interesting what they did with the curve in the shadows.
I have found some limitations of the Photoshop shadow/highlight tool
besides the exposure of shadow noise which one might expect. I
really hate that pale corona that surrounds dark edges that appears when the
tool is overused.
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Summita/pages/DSCF1140a.htm
It looks very unnatural and manipulated to my eye. I decided I needed to
work harder at nailing the exposure. Unfortunately the narrow dynamic range
of the Fuji sensor/curve seems to make it impossible to avoid the corona in
contrasty situations. I realize I put the link to your darkest example which
you provided to primarily demonstrate the low shadow noise, but the corona
is there to a lesser degree in the the other corrected shots with sky.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jul 30, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Moose wrote:
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> They had less flattering things to say about daylight performance:
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> "On the downside the F30 is not as impressive on bright sunny days as
> it is indoors or at night; sure, the sharpness and low noise are still
> there, but the tone curve often produces images that lack highlight or
> shadow detail, yet can look a bit flat. You'll get some amazing
> results if you know your way around Photoshop (or similar), but I
> often (though by no means always) found the 'out of camera' results
> slightly disappointing. Add to this the tendency to over expose and
> you've got a camera that really needs to be used by someone who knows
> what they're doing to get the most out of it."
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