Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16

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Subject: Noisy digital shadows - was: Re: [Leica] re: digital treadmill
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Jan 16 07:50:58 2006

Apply a "multiply" layer and 'burn' in the shadows. I would suggest that the
shadows in which we tend to get really ugly noise are shadows which would
have virtually nothing in them with film. I came to the conclusion long ago
- and this brings us back to the beginning of this refreshingly calm and
informative discussion ;-) - that one of the tradeoffs in the film/digital
equation, and one of the reasons that I've gone with digital, is that
digital tends to capture more information in low light than does film. I
won't be surprised if one of our computer technical gurus tells me I'm
wrong, but I don't think I am.

B. D.


On 1/15/06 10:27 PM, "Kenneth Frazier" <kennybod@mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 15, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Scott McLoughlin wrote:
> 
>> noisy shadows. It especially confounds me with shots that I *want*
>> to be very dark.
> 
> Scott, in the December issue of Popular Photography, page 64, in
> their section on fixes, there's a piece on "noise in shadows," with
> the problem photos illustrated, and a discussion of the cause and
> what, possibly, to do about it.
> 
> Ken
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