jaapv
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I can confirm what Jono says. Having had quite a limited shooting time with the camera here in Berlin and thus only few files I can however, confirm his findings - with one small exemption- .
The highlights - blown is blow and that is it. No recovery from the green channel etc.
However, the greytones are extremely defined and subtle, far beyond what film or digital conversions can bring, and the shadow detail seems to go on for ever and ever. We will have to learn to use these files and that will take time. but it will give birth to a different type of black-andwhite photography that branches off from the film tree, as opposed to the convert-and-imitate digital black and white that we are used to now.
I just had a long breakfast talk with Erwin Puts. He has found that in the blown highlights there are still some little histogram spikes left, probably representing individual pixels that blow a bit later than others. Whether these were useful for highlight recovery he could not say. That is probably a matter of luck.
You will all need to read his site on this camera when he publishes his findings, but I can give a sneak preview - they will not be negative by any standard.
I have not spoken to one user-expert here who was not over the moon with this camera and many were writing out cheques on the spot. I would have too, were it not that little birds were twittering even better uses for my photography slush fund in the not too far future. There is a limit to the amount I can steal out of the household expenses...😱 Late September is not too far away....
The highlights - blown is blow and that is it. No recovery from the green channel etc.
However, the greytones are extremely defined and subtle, far beyond what film or digital conversions can bring, and the shadow detail seems to go on for ever and ever. We will have to learn to use these files and that will take time. but it will give birth to a different type of black-andwhite photography that branches off from the film tree, as opposed to the convert-and-imitate digital black and white that we are used to now.
I just had a long breakfast talk with Erwin Puts. He has found that in the blown highlights there are still some little histogram spikes left, probably representing individual pixels that blow a bit later than others. Whether these were useful for highlight recovery he could not say. That is probably a matter of luck.
You will all need to read his site on this camera when he publishes his findings, but I can give a sneak preview - they will not be negative by any standard.
I have not spoken to one user-expert here who was not over the moon with this camera and many were writing out cheques on the spot. I would have too, were it not that little birds were twittering even better uses for my photography slush fund in the not too far future. There is a limit to the amount I can steal out of the household expenses...😱 Late September is not too far away....
