This is the 43rd in a series of posts on the Hasselblad X2D 100C camera and the XCD lenses. You will be able to find all the posts in this series by looking at the righthand column on this page and finding the Category “X2D”. Some casual shooting with the new 90/2.5 XCD lens left… [Read More]

While I was looking at the Sigma DP1 Merrill Studio Scene raw file, I decided to look at some raw histograms. This is the histogram of the whole image: It’s a 12-bit analog to digital converter (ADC). The putative blue channel (what I call the white channel in a Foveon sensor) has about 50,000 pixels… [Read More]

I’ve never owned a Foveon camera, but I’ve owned many cameras that could capture 3 color channels at each pixel location. The cameras I’ve owned don’t produce images that look like a lot of Foveon camera images I’ve seen. I’ve been curious as to why, and have reported in this blog on some of the… [Read More]

Many people have noticed an artificial, unnatural “crunchiness” in images made with the Foveon sensor. Whether you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing is subjective. Many of the Foveonisti think it’s great. I think it’s ugly. Where does this wonderful — to some — or yucky — to others — characteristic come… [Read More]