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Taming a hard desktop

October 8, 2023 JimK 3 Comments

I remember spending a lot of time in camera stores when I was in my teens and twenties. These were brick and mortar establishments in places like Muncie, Indiana, Wallingford, Connecticut, and Palo Alto, California. Sadly, most of those stores are gone. The only one left is the one in Muncie. Those stores all had… [Read More]

The Last Word

X2D, GFX 100 II base ISO visual shadow noise

October 7, 2023 JimK 4 Comments

This is the nineteenth post in a series of tests of the Fujifilm GFX 100, Mark II. You can find all the posts in this series by going to the Categories pane in the right hand panel and clicking on “GFX 100 II”. I’ve been asked to do a visual shadow noise test with the… [Read More]

GFX 100 II, The Last Word

Fujifilm GFX 100 II — ISOlessness at high ISO settings

October 6, 2023 JimK 10 Comments

This is the eighteenth post in a series of tests of the Fujifilm GFX 100, Mark II. You can find all the posts in this series by going to the Categories pane in the right hand panel and clicking on “GFX 100 II”. In the previous post, I looked at the visual shadow noise of… [Read More]

GFX 100 II

Fujifilm GFX 100 II — ISOlessness at low ISO settings

October 6, 2023 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the seventeenth post in a series of tests of the Fujifilm GFX 100, Mark II. You can find all the posts in this series by going to the Categories pane in the right hand panel and clicking on “GFX 100 II”. From my earlier quantitative posts with the GFX 100 II, we know… [Read More]

GFX 100 II, The Last Word

Fujifilm GFX 100 II — deep shadow noise at 14 and 16 bit precision

October 6, 2023 JimK Leave a Comment

This is the sixteenth post in a series of tests of the Fujifilm GFX 100, Mark II. You can find all the posts in this series by going to the Categories pane in the right hand panel and clicking on “GFX 100 II”. Yesterday, I looked at the difference between deep shadow noise at ISO… [Read More]

GFX 100 II

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  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
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  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
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  • 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
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    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
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  • 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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