Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sure if I can get that image better, but you get at least the prize for the most difficult words per square line ;-) Philippe Op 18-nov-06, om 19:36 heeft Rei Shinozuka het volgende geschreven: > tangentially related to some of the M8 firmware questions, but > mostly inspired by some of the casual conversations about > denoisification software, fractalification and such, i am > very curious as to how good this technology really is. > i am especially interested in how technology can improve > mediocre lenses and especially sensor noise. > > as a real-world test, i have an image which pleases me on a > sentimental level, that of my daughter and cat "boy-B" > it was taken with a phenomenally excreble camera, the one in > my sidekick 3, whose greatest photographic feature was its > propinquity. the image quality is atrotious-- > almost Niepcean in decreptitude. however, underneath a foggy veil > of multicolored noise, there exists rudimentary contrast and > a hint of sharpness from which i would think it theoretically > possible to extract a snapshot of something approaching 126 > film quality. > > i'd love to see if any of our resident experts might demonstrate > what can be done with such an extreme example of poor > digital imaging. > > Scaled-down: "Kitty and Boy-B" > http://www.shinozuka.org/IMG00159-600pix.JPG > > the full image: "Kitty and Boy-B" > http://www.shinozuka.org/IMG00159.JPG > > thanks! > > -rei > > -- > Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com > Ridgewood, New Jersey > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >