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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Dynamic range, high lights information D800 vs 5dmk2

« on: April 23, 2013, 08:48:33 AM »

Mudslinging does not pay, this is  comparison, what can be done with large DR. From high lights to shadows
and those who are  shouting  loudest have not contributed with  anything except to say that their choice of equipment is always the right.

I'm not going to go back and re-read this, but if memory serves, exactly nobody said that.

Sometimes I wish I had a large tele prime rather than a zoom. Sometimes I wish I had a Phase One rather than an SLR. Sometimes I wish I had a D4 or a 1Dx or a D800.

In my world, I have to mostly disregard wishes and work within the equipment I can. Are there instances where resolving detail an extra stop or two darker would add to an image? Of course there are. Is that the end-all-be-all? Of course not.

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Reviews / Re: Canon 60D vs Nikon D7100 - 2 Problems I Noticed with the Nikon D7100

« on: April 22, 2013, 05:09:11 PM »

please explain what do you mean with this:

But it's not reasonable to expect those algorithms to differ by more than a minor amount, and Nikon cameras are notorious for royally screwing up white balance in exactly the way the original poster has discovered. I'd go so far as to suggest that the cameras are unacceptable as shipped, though the problems should vanish in an ICC managed workflow.

It's a pretty straightforward statement. Even though they use different algorithms, they should come up with relatively close results. In this case, the camera may be defective, but using the process he suggested at but didn't explain in detail, it wouldn't matter.

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Third Party Manufacturers / Re: Dynamic range, high lights information D800 vs 5dmk2

« on: April 22, 2013, 04:05:12 PM »

The DR of my 7D is so terrible that I didn't even dare to lift the shadow 

try to do it and se whats happening. Your shadows are blocked.

Done!

No visible noise (to my eyes, resizing may help here), but that doesn't matter to me anyway. Now, Mikael, please tell me which version you prefer (out of two bad photos) 

Personally, I go with the first one. The dark shadows of the trees make them appear as intentional framing of the scene, whereas in the second it looks like you couldn't get the vantage point to avoid them. Also, the black clipping makes the water look better.

Often times, clipping black is among my first steps in post. This was shot with a 350D (didn't have a tripod so I suspect I was propping the camera up or resting it on the floor, as it's shot at 1/30 and doesn't have unbearable motion blur).

Would a D600 or D800 have had more detail in the water towards the bottom 25%? Maybe. Would I want it to? In the raw, yes (I'd like as much detail as possible to begin with). In the final image, no.

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Reviews / Re: Canon 60D vs Nikon D7100 - 2 Problems I Noticed with the Nikon D7100

« on: April 22, 2013, 08:31:44 AM »

This

Sorry, I was curtly agreeing with neuroanatomist's post. I was incredulous at that notion that someone standing in lit a room with something can't see what it looks like (i.e. that he wouldn't know which camera is  right).

I missed that it was video
make a real WB against a qp-card

Does it make sense that setting an identical Kelvin color temperature on different bodies would give different results?

I think it would be reasonable to expect slightly different color handling between camera makes, if not even models within the same make. If these snaps of the rear LCD are representative of the actual output video, however, I'd have to assume something is wrong with this D7100.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 21, 2013, 11:30:54 PM »

It's in the lens corrections panel under Basic

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Reviews / Re: Canon 60D vs Nikon D7100 - 2 Problems I Noticed with the Nikon D7100

« on: April 21, 2013, 02:32:46 PM »

Ankorwatt's point probably was: you can see that they are different, but without a reference how do you know which one is correct?

Well, I don't know about you - but when I'm looking at two images with obviously different WB, and I have the original physical object/scene which was imaged as a reference, which the OP clearly does, I have no trouble telling which WB is correct and which is wrong.

This

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Software & Accessories / Re: What site do you use to host your photos?

« on: April 20, 2013, 09:48:26 AM »

Smugmug

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 18, 2013, 08:26:54 AM »

This thing is really going to need some killer features & performance improvements to get me to "upgrade" my macbook away from 10.6 in order to use it.  My GF's machine has Lion on it & I tear my hair out every time I try to use that thing.

Can anyone running the beta please check & see if they've added a new process version (e.g. "2013 (current)")?

Thanks :-)

The beta uses the same PV as 4.0 (2012).

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Software & Accessories / Re: Looks like we'll actually get it soon!

« on: April 17, 2013, 04:26:08 PM »

I wonder how it compares to dedicated de-convolving software (topaz, etc).

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 17, 2013, 08:30:11 AM »

What do you think? Was the retouching noticeable?

Maybe a little, but only because I know where to look.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 16, 2013, 04:19:17 PM »

It's slow going due to general buggy-ness

My experience when trying it is quite the opposite: LR5 feels like turbo-charged, as if the build a wait loop into LR4 to make people wish for an upgrade :-> ... this and some new features like the heal/clone brush are enough to upgrade, let's hope the RC phase doesn't take the better of a year's time.

Out of curiosity: OSX or Windows? I've thus far only used it on Windows 7. May load it up on my Mountain Lion machine this evening.

It does feel peppier than 4, and I'll note that I always work each photoshoot in its own fresh catalog, so there's no "few hundred versus tens-of-thousands" effect at play.

What I meant was: getting through the entire set is slow going, because I have to restart LR every couple of frames. Most common failure has been the adjustment brush. It repeatedly stopped working, i.e. I'd select the tool but when I clicked to place it it merely zoomed in an out. Restarting the software remedied it. Other times it crashed outright.

Ouch, that sounds quite buggy. If I keep hearing this, I might wait for the next beta or RC before trying it out.

I'll blow away my preferences file. Maybe something is wonky due to it (it had all my customizations from LR4).

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 16, 2013, 02:09:34 PM »

It's slow going due to general buggy-ness

My experience when trying it is quite the opposite: LR5 feels like turbo-charged, as if the build a wait loop into LR4 to make people wish for an upgrade :-> ... this and some new features like the heal/clone brush are enough to upgrade, let's hope the RC phase doesn't take the better of a year's time.

Out of curiosity: OSX or Windows? I've thus far only used it on Windows 7. May load it up on my Mountain Lion machine this evening.

It does feel peppier than 4, and I'll note that I always work each photoshoot in its own fresh catalog, so there's no "few hundred versus tens-of-thousands" effect at play.

What I meant was: getting through the entire set is slow going, because I have to restart LR every couple of frames. Most common failure has been the adjustment brush. It repeatedly stopped working, i.e. I'd select the tool but when I clicked to place it it merely zoomed in an out. Restarting the software remedied it. Other times it crashed outright.

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Software & Accessories / Re: Adobe Lightroom 5 Public Beta Available

« on: April 16, 2013, 08:35:15 AM »

I used the beta on a photoshoot last night. It's slow going due to general buggy-ness, but when the brush tools work they work well. I like, and will upgrade when the time comes.

The offline editing feature is probably very compelling for some (particularly those with only one harddrive, i.e. laptop users).

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Software & Accessories / Re: Lightroom 5 Beta available for download!!

« on: April 16, 2013, 08:33:15 AM »

I used the beta on a photoshoot last night. It's slow going due to general buggy-ness, but when the brush tools work they work well. I like, and will upgrade when the time comes.

I'm hard pressed to see the big step change that warrants a full version number. 

The offline editing feature is huge. It opens up a world of new storage solutions.

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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Re: 5D MK II Error - Pink Frame

« on: April 15, 2013, 09:43:14 AM »

Weird... it being the previous frame makes it seem like it's trying multiple exposures a'la the mk3. Wonder if they put the wrong firmware on when they refurbed it.