Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe the calibration on your monitor is way off... feli On May 6, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > Dear All, > > I have just spent a few days photographing and recording some of my > late father's paintings before they were sent on semi-permanent loan > to the University of Torun in Poland. > > I decided for fairly obvious reasons to use my D-1 to take digital > images of the 70-odd paintings which have been shipped. I was > horrified at the variation in colour between the painting itself, what > I saw on the screen and what I actually got on the SD card. Of course > I am aware that my eye and the camera don't have the same response > characteristics; but interestingly I could do little to get the camera > to come close... > > Is this my D-1, is it common or is there some reasonable explanation? > > Further, my father painted largely abstract works (you might describe > him as an abstract expressionist, but it's not particularly accurate). > On those where the boundaries between areas of colour were not > distinct the camera appeared to have difficulty in producing a sharp > image. The opposite being true where there were strong boundaries. I > am coming to the conclusion that the image-reconstruction algorithms > taking the output from the chip and building the resultant image in > memory must have been fooled. Any thoughts?? > > FWIW, conditions were flat daylight, no auxiliary lighting. > > Thanks for any thoughts - as I have a lot more still to do I would > like to know if anyone can suggest correction techniques. > > Although this is a fairly stringent test - and an unusual one - when > all is said and done the D-1 is a Leica and should have done better. > > Peter Dzwig > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > ________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com no archive