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More slit scan experiments — the agony of choosing

December 6, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

This post is part of a series about some experiments I’m doing combining space and time in slit scan photographs. The series starts here. Now that I’ve got the Matlab parallel processing going, it’s easy to produce lots of different renderings of the same capture set. There’s a downside to that. How to choose between… [Read More]

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More slit scan experimants — parallel processing

December 3, 2016 JimK 11 Comments

This post is part of a series about some experiments I’m doing combining space and time in slit scan photographs. The series starts here. When you take a set of 10,000 5200×3500 pixel images and run slit scan simulations against them, there are a lot of options: What image to start with. Which way to… [Read More]

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Sony a7RII FW 3.3 raw dark-field histograms, ISO 3200-25600

December 2, 2016 JimK 2 Comments

Yesterday, I showed you histograms of raw dark-field images from the Sony a7RII with release 3.30 firmware with ISO’s between 100 and 1600. The red and blue channels looked pretty similar to the FW 1.0 images I made last year. However, the green channels did not. The uncompressed green channels were more ragged, and the… [Read More]

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Sony a7RII FW 3.3 raw dark-field histograms, ISO 100-1600

December 1, 2016 JimK Leave a Comment

A little over a year ago, I posted dark-field histograms from the Sony a7RII with FW 2.0, which was the first firmware release to support uncompressed raw. Today I’m doing a similar post for FW 3.3. You might want to open up both posts in separate tabs to see the differences. The green histograms are… [Read More]

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Reverse engineering the Sony a7RII long exposure spatial filtering

December 1, 2016 JimK 3 Comments

We have seen here and here that the Sony a7RII running firmware 3.30 spatially filters raw images prior to writing them to the flash card at shutter speeds slower than 3.2 seconds. The camera did similar filtering for bulb exposures in earlier releases. A DPR poster earlier proposed that the algorithm Sony used was the… [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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