Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You mean Nikon medium format camera files? Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:26:59 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Medium Format Digital > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> You didn't do any sharpening after hand? >> How about during hand? Check all your prefs? Menus in your menus? >> Its got a very hard look to me. Really verging on too hard. > > Knowing the general area reasonably well, I'd say it's not sharpened. > Mark, > perhaps you're accustomed to N**** files? > > ;) > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > >>> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:25:12 -0700 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Medium Format Digital >>> >>> Hi Mark, >>> The pixels in this image have not been sharpened to protect the innocent >>> (unless of course LR applied some sharpening when it output to the >>> web...). >>> >>> Bob Adler >>> http://www.rgaphoto.com >>> >>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I think an advantage to medium format digital is it can take a lot of >>>> sharpening and not get all funny. >>>> This to me is also an advantage to using lower ISO's... >>>> than maybe you'd think you'd even need. >>>> >>>> A high iso small format capture makes of an image which needs to be >>>> sharpened very very carefully; as you can go to far and the next day you >>>> look at it and you realized you have to redo it. Unless there is a >>>> layer >>>> in >>>> Photoshop for sharpening. Which I'd think there easily could be. >>>> >>>> >>>> Mark William Rabiner >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> >>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:52:26 -0400 >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Medium Format Digital >>>>> >>>>> Now that is one sharp photo!! You had a clear view of Owens Valley. >>>>> When >>>>> we went up two days later there was a lot of haze. Here is my panorama >>>>> from >>>>> the same spot: >>>>> http://www.pbase.com/image/136216932 >>>>> >>>>> I have a problem smoothing out skies in panoramas. Are you using >>>>> Photoshop >>>>> to stitch your's? >>>>> >>>>> Tina >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> My P45+ stitched in portrait orientation (18mm shift on each side) >>>>>> with >>>>>> the >>>>>> 35mm lens gives a rough equivalent of a medium format 17.5mm lens. >>>>>> That >>>>>> translates into what, about a 12mm rectilinear 35mm equivalent? >>>>>> >>>>>> And you want what? >>>>>> See: >>>>>> http://www.rgaphoto.com/GT/content/Valley_View_Pano_W_large.html >>>>>> >>>>>> This image is from 3 main segments produced by using 3 back shifts >>>>>> with a >>>>>> portrait oriented P45+ and 35mm lens, for each segment. The 3 back >>>>>> shifts >>>>>> of >>>>>> each segment were stitched together from the images of the 35mm lens >>>>>> shifted >>>>>> in portrait orientation. This roughly equates to the view of each of >>>>>> the >>>>>> 3 >>>>>> segments equaling the field of view of a 17.5mm medium format lens/ >>>>>> 12mm >>>>>> lens on a 35mm format system. 3of these were stitched(swinging the >>>>>> camera >>>>>> on a panoramic head) to give the image. It was then cropped. The file >>>>>> is >>>>>> over 2.2GB. >>>>>> >>>>>> Give me a place to stand and I will hang this image! >>>>>> >>>>>> In all seriousness there are some correctly stated and some overstated >>>>>> items in this expose. But all in all, medium format for landscapes is >>>>>> at >>>>>> a >>>>>> really nice place right now... >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone want to buy some Hassy V and Canon equip? :-) >>>>>> Bob >>>>>> >>>>>> Bob Adler >>>>>> http://www.rgaphoto.com >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:25 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> My pipe dream is that someone, well, Fuji specifically :-) would >>>>>>> make a >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 18x49mm sensor, and build a digital RF system for it. The sensor >>>>>>> size is >>>>>>> just about the same size as the "full frame" 35mm, so the technology >>>>>>> and >>>>>>> cost is known (remember that full frame Canon and Sony are as "low" >>>>>>> as >>>>>>> $2500). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The result would of course be a cropped digital XPan. The lens >>>>>>> should be >>>>>>> much easier to design - heck, lets make them all F2.8 while we are at >>>>>>> it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sell the whole system with 3 lens (30, 45 and 90 equivalent) for >>>>>>> $10,000 >>>>>> to >>>>>>> $12,000, and I bet they will sell at least as many of that as Pentax >>>>>> 645D. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> >>>>>>> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> >>>>>>> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> >>>>>>> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all >>>>>> previous >>>>>>> replies in your msgs. ] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP >>>>> www.tinamanley.com >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information