Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] Red Camera - another red dot camera
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sat Nov 15 05:50:46 2008
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Yes but, Didier ;-)
That is true in general. However there is still noise reduction and other
algorithms, anti-aliasing and gamma encoding going on in the camera
irrespective. Not to denigrate their sensors but that is part of the high
ISO performance of the new Nikons, for example. Leica specifically claims to
do less manipulation to help preserve the lens performance.
All Raw files represent a conversion. As you know it is grey scale analog
data in the first instance. There is a lot of number crunching.  Extending
that, the M8 for example adjusts light fall off on the outer sensor edges (
as well as the cyan corners introduced by the UV/IR filter) according to
detected focal length, for example. This applies to DNG's not only jpgs
which of course are a more processed version of the same data.


Cheers
Geoff
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http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Didier Ludwig
Sent: Friday, 14 November 2008 21:53
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Red Camera - another red dot camera

That's true for JPGs. But RAW is RAW, from what I understand. With my Epson
R-D1s, I can fiddle the in-camera software settings as much as I want, only
the JPGs are affected, but the RAW files stay the same. But not shure for
other cameras.
Didier


>Yes, but it's more than just some sharpening and tweaking is what I really
meant. 
>Nikon,Leica,Canon all have some kind of built-in processing where the Red
does not.
>Chris


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