the last word

This may be old news to many of you, but I just stumbled on to it and nailed it down. The new(ish) Lightroom exposure control (Process Version 2012) works differently than the Exposure adjustment layer in Photoshop CS 6. While the Lightroom control gives you a convenient way to simulate the shoulder of the film… [Read More]

In about two weeks, I’ll be participating in a workshop on raw processing. The workshop, sponsored by the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, brings together three developers of raw developing software (Eric Chan from Adobe, Brian Griffith from Irident Digital, and Lionel Kuhlmann from Capture One) and two photographers (Charles Cramer and myself). The… [Read More]

From the mailbag: I really like the Stealth option on the Sony RX1.  How did you get that look on the RX1?  This may sound ignorant but did you cover all the front white labeling with a Sharpie or something like that and if so how is the result? I was hoping someone would ask… [Read More]

The Nikon D4 uses all 14 of its bits all the time except for those lost to digital white balance. The Nikon D800E is at 14-bit device with all codes present except for those lost to digital white balance until the ISO knob gets to 3200. Then the gain of the analog amplifier stops increasing… [Read More]

At ISO 100, it looks like the NEX-7 has a 12-bit ADC: At ISO 200, more noise: at ISO 400 still more noise. Note that we’ve not seen the bucket at 32 counts occupied in one of the histograms so far : At ISO 800, still more noise, and still nothing happening at count 32:… [Read More]