Nathan
I can only help you about DXO, it is brandy, Cognac if you prefer,
Definitely eXtra Old. And among the very best :-)
http://le-cognac.com/club/c_faq.html
Slainte
Philippe
Le 14 févr. 14 à 09:04, Nathan Wajsman a écrit :
> CFA - chartered financial analyst?
> B to B - business to business?
> R to R - ???
> POCS - sounds like some sexually transmitted disease
>
> Just trying to understand the abbreviations before diving into the
> technical bits ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> YNWA
>
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 12:53 AM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> The fuji cams just handle well with the SS dials and aperture
>> rings--feel like real cams and
>> not computers with lenses attached. The lenses seem to have very nice
>> rendering as well or is it the lens/cam combo---dunno. Still FF A7(r)
>> is not that much bigger and perform better in many circumstances and
>> MFT can be quite small and horse cam friendly with large stable of
>> lenschoices.
>> X-trans design still bothers a bit.
>>
>> CFA's have trade offs by nature. Xtrans designed so the "green" raw
>> channel has more coverage but less positional symmetry than in a
>> Bayer
>> sensor
>> and as a direct result there is less high-frequency luminance
>> "miscalculations" in the interpolation, giving lower noise in raw
>> conversion.
>> The larger B to B and R to R distances necessitate a large chroma
>> smoothing radius resulting in "watercolor effects or artifacts--
>> balance
>> seems different with different converters. Accuraw allows one to
>> adjust
>> the balance though have never used it.
>>
>> http://www.dslrbodies.com/accessories/software-for-nikon-dslrs/software-news/accuraw-11-update.html
>>
>> I was hoping that DXO with all their optics Ph.D's would use POCS
>> algorithm to minimize the complicatons of the uneven channel coverage
>> but they haven't bitten on that yet and don't support Fuji in DXO
>> optics pro. I think they could have the very best converter if they
>> wanted to develop it.
>>
>> Still would very much enjoy using fuji gear I think and the above
>> concerns are not that dramatic. Certainly have admired the images
>> here.
>>
>> Mike
>
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