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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Moonrise from the Space Needle
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:09:00 -0500

Hopefully its not in the firmware somewhere to get red of red eye.


On 2/10/15 5:19 AM, "Peter Klein" <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:

> We were treated to quite a show during our anniversary dinner.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/16304267069/>
> 
> I'd like some advice on a technical problem with this picture, and in fact
> with all of the pictures I took of the city from atop the Needle.  Red car
> tail lights turn white.  It isn't overexposure, because it happens even on
> shots that I deliberately underexposed drastically, where all the RGB
> values are under 255. In shots with any decent city detail, the red channel
> does hit 255, but the green and blue are much lower.  Lowering the exposure
> in post, or using highlight recovery has no effect.
> 
> This doesn't happen with larger areas of red light where the pixels have
> the same values as the little tail lights. But taill lights turn white, as
> do other points of colored light like the blue and green Seahawks colors
> that still adorn some construction cranes. The key seems to be that the
> light sources are just a few pixels in diameter.
> 
> Maddeningly, on the onscreen preview, the tail lights appear red. But when
> I "develop" the JPG, they turn white.They also turn white if I blow up the
> onscreen preview to 50% size or larger.
> 
> The camera is an Olympus E-M5 with 45/1.8 lens, and the RAW developer is
> Capture One v. 7.1.2. Here's a screen clip of the whole picture, followed
> by a section with and a string of car rears blown up to 400% so you can see
> what's going on with the pixels.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/SpaceNeedleMoonriseScrPreview.JPG
> .html
>> 
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/temp/SpaceNeedleMoonriseCars400pct.JPG
> .html
>> 
> 
> Advice, anyone? Is this just an inevitable result of the Bayer array, or is
> there a way to fix it?
> 
> --Peter
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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Replies: Reply from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] IMG: Moonrise from the Space Needle)
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