Infrared slit scan. About a 20 minute exposure with a 75mm lens.
More slit scan clouds
Sunset with contrail
Here’s another slit-scan sunset. This one would have been pretty soporific if not for a passing plane.
Noise vs resolution — part 3
Next I tried one of the proprietary resolution-changing programs, Perfect Resize. I used the default parameters. The crop of the NEX-5 image looks like this: The crop of the NEX-7 image looks like this: The crop of the D3s image looks like this: Here’s the Nikon image sharpened to match the Sony images. It’s night… [Read More]
Noise vs resolution — part 2
Bicubic sharper is probably not the best interpolation technique to average out noise. I next tried just plain bicubic. The crop of the NEX-5 image looks like this: The crop of the NEX-7 image looks like this: The crop of the D3s image looks like this: Here’s the Nikon image sharpened to match the Sony… [Read More]