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August 31, 2015 JimK Leave a Comment

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How to judge a camera’s imaging

August 29, 2015 JimK 2 Comments

[If you’re wondering where yesterday’s post on the base ISO of the a7RII went, I pulled it. Bill Claff, Jack Hogan, and Iliah Borg helped me see that my model for an Aptina DR-Pix camera was grossly oversimplified, resulting in erroneous conclusions. I hope to have a better version to post before too long.] A… [Read More]

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Fake ISOs, ETTR, & WYSIWYG

August 27, 2015 JimK 2 Comments

I posted my test results and conclusions on the a7RII’s fake ISO settings on the DPR alpha 7 forum. To put it mildly, a lively discussion ensued. The SNR was not particularly high, but even so, as is usual in Internet discussions, I learned a couple of things. In my original post, I took the… [Read More]

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Nikon D810 fake ISOs

August 26, 2015 JimK 2 Comments

Yesterday I talked about the way that the ISOs below base ISO are implemented in the Sony a7RII. Today I’ll turn my attention to the Nikon D810, using the same methodology. You might want to look at yesterday’s post if you haven’t seen it already. Here are the statistics for a series of images exposed… [Read More]

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Sony a7RII fake ISOs

August 25, 2015 JimK 12 Comments

From the mailbag: I told [name] that the ISO values below 100 on the A7R2 are “fake” and that the dynamic range measurements you provided for those ISO values are spurious. I tried to find where you discussed that and was not able to. [name] was asking for a link. Do you have anywhere on… [Read More]

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
    • How to shoot slanted edge images for me
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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