you really need 20fps on street shooting?
I guess if wanting all perfect
I guess if wanting all perfect
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Except that you don't. And it actually takes a little work to get a HDR image to look natural which is why I prefer blending. And before you say "ah ha! blending is not artistic!" blending is an advanced form of dodging and burning.
So all those years Kodak and Fuji were lying on their data sheets?
You realize those are not mutually exclusive, right?
Density or digital value, depending on medium.
This was an abrupt jump: ...then the value of 16384 will actually represent a value of 32768...
There's not one big leap of missing tones at the end of the scale.
To me neither blending nor HDR is artistic.
What data sheets? On how film respond to exposure?
I realise logarithmic function is not linear so yes those are mutually exclusive.
Stop being obtuse. You know exactly what data sheets and graphs I'm referring to and you know a characteristic curve has a linear portion.
Sensors with the highest DR compress a nearly 15ev space into a 14-bit encoding. This is observable fact not subject to your theorizing. Enroll in an EE course if you want to learn more about ADCs and when/why this happens.
Having just on/off would be one stop of DR.
Zero? That would be an array where all elements were set to the same number, and could not be changed from that number
It's not possible to encode 15ev space into 14 bits, unless ADC is non-linear. Just physically not possible. And as far as I'm aware, even Sony sensors use linear ADCs.
I've only seen linearity mentioned somewhere several times but no i don't have technical specs. However Sony raw output is known as 14-bit and TIFF-based, that implies linearity. If ADC squeezes 15-bit range into 14 bits, the output will need to be converted back to 15 bits using some inverse-to-ADC function but it's not happening. So it's linear and 14 bits all the way through.If they’re linear, do the Sony ADCs output at 14 bits? Serious question, not trolling - if they’re linear, but output at a higher bit depth than the final output, it’s trivial to compress at the point it’s written to file.
Where do you get your data/specs on the Sony ADC implementations? Surprises me that they’re linear, I’d heard otherwise, but have no solid data at all, just heard speculation.
I've only seen linearity mentioned somewhere several times but no i don't have technical specs. However Sony raw output is known as 14-bit and TIFF-based, that implies linearity. If ADC squeezes 15-bit range into 14 bits, the output will need to be converted back to 15 bits using some inverse-to-ADC function but it's not happening. So it's linear and 14 bits all the way through.
Ah, right, so you you’re not entirely sure. I was hoping you could point me to solid data.
Dtaylor is correct though, at least in the general case. In my audio engineering days for telecom, we squeezed 16 bit audio in to 8 bit all the time using non linear mapping. Exactly the same principle.
I finally found the article that stated it’s non linear encoded: dated 2014, when at the time, Sony was doing a non linear encoding from 14 bits to 11 bits. Then further compressing with an adaptive delta down to 8 bits. This is what caused their shitty rep previously in their raws.
RawDigger: detecting posterization in SONY cRAW/ARW2 files
Lossy compression of raw data is currently the only option available in Sony cameras of series NEX, SLT, RX, ILCE, ILCA, and the recent DSLR-A. The first part of this article is showing how to detect artifacts caused by this compression. We will be discussing the technical details of this...www.rawdigger.com
Still haven’t found anything on their newer files though. Who knows, maybe they’re actually linear
Very interesting paper, thanks. However I think it's not about ADC linearity. It's all about processing and compression after ADC, because cRAW is a compressed lossy format.
Crucial point we were discussing here, does voltage from a sensor pixel get lineary converted in ADC into the digital value, e.g. in the range of 0..16383 ?
Yes it's an assumption but very plausible. If the sensor/pixel signal fits (potentially) say 15 bits before ADC and gets compressed into 14 bits in ADC, then it'll need to be decompressed later on back into 15 bits, but Sony raw files are said to be 14 bits.Right, and I think the answer to that is: in the absence of real data, none of us know, and can only speculate. However, it is entirely possible, and actually quite common, to map large ranges of numbers in to smaller ranges using non linear encoding. Whether that is the case specifically with recent Sony cameras, no one seems to be able to point us to a reliable reference.
It is a rule on this forum that you have to be a fanboy and suck Canon's you-know if you want to leave a comment
Canon fans cant handle the truth