boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
It does fit and will make a picture. Just tested. Not as good color as the 35mm Canon but it works. Should I need a low-key lens I will turn to this one.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
I have tried to upload a portrait photo of some of those Rhodies with the Amotal several times. Under different names and from different locations on my computer. The board always uploads a different landscape photo, and always the same one.. This is not a problem on another board or on Flickr. I do hope that The Head Bartender can get the upgrade stabilized soon. I am sure I am not the only person getting hammered with little problems. Other than this, the board is still great
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Shameless attention whore that I am I remembered a way to display this portrait orientation pic of Rhodies with the Amotal. This is at ISO 160 where the Pixii likes to live. https://flic.kr/p/2no7kHx
Added later: This lens is quite sharp without being offensive about it. The petals and stamens are clearly defined yet retain a softness. This is what attracted me to the lens, the ability to have a "soft focus" and still be sharp. Brian says this is because of the lens "prescription." Not being as technical and more given to flights of fancy I call it "magic."
Added later: This lens is quite sharp without being offensive about it. The petals and stamens are clearly defined yet retain a softness. This is what attracted me to the lens, the ability to have a "soft focus" and still be sharp. Brian says this is because of the lens "prescription." Not being as technical and more given to flights of fancy I call it "magic."
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Sunshine, glorious sunshine. How it elevates the spirit and makes the heart sing. And gets the green things to grow. Haven't seen any in over a week. Just grey and rain. Here is grey and rain as seen by the Pixii with the Cooke 2" Amotal. How would you like a couple of weeks of this? It does make the sun more appreciated when it gets here.
Shot in native Pixii JPEG.
Shot in native Pixii JPEG.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
It seems the arrival of the Pixii signaled the departure of the sun in my neighborhood. We get an occasional show of sunlight but not enough to hang your hat on. There is a big car show here this weekend, its 50th. All sorts of rods and custom cars as that is big around here. Really sweet cars immaculately turned out. The weather prediction is rain, not intermittent rain, not light rain, not showers, rain. And here rain means rain, all day pouring down kind of rain. This is the Pacific Northwest. So strike the car show.
And this kind of limits photographing as it is the light that makes it. I have a folder on Flickr with five JPEGs in it. Flickr displays way better than the board does. I am taking photos in DNG so I become pickier in what I convert. If you are interested here is the link. Some with the Canon 35mm LTM f/2.0 (Black) and some with the Cooke Amotal. More later.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandynoyes/albums/72177720299200254
And this kind of limits photographing as it is the light that makes it. I have a folder on Flickr with five JPEGs in it. Flickr displays way better than the board does. I am taking photos in DNG so I become pickier in what I convert. If you are interested here is the link. Some with the Canon 35mm LTM f/2.0 (Black) and some with the Cooke Amotal. More later.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandynoyes/albums/72177720299200254
Photograph in the rain...
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Have you any idea of what 110+ inches of rain a year looks like? We don't get dramatic thunderstorms and then clear weather. We get days and days of rain. I have been out in the rain with a camera and gotten some good shots. It is mostly monochrome even when shot on color. I am hoping for sunshine and color. I am just tired of the monochromatic grey-blue scene. I have gotten some nice color shots in sunshine using the Cooke Amotal on an M9. I'd like to do that with the Pixii.
I have lived here for about 20 years now and never seen such awful weather. My May heating bill was 2/3 of my January heating bill.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
Well, here is what happens when we get sunshine and I am wandering around with a Pixii and a Jupiter 8. This particular J8 is a honey, my '57 KMZ, and it is sharp and has very honest color. It is a very close contender of the Amotal in my mind.
Here are four I have culled from this afternoon. Sunshine, oh precious sunshine, the Prime Mover of our world.
The color and detail of the camera/lens combo here is good but not quite the same as what I have on my computer. The conversion from DNG to JPEG and the reduction of size of the JPEG to be posted here and the image degradation after posting are slow and incremental, like garroting. Here is a link to the folder on Flickr which has better copies of these images: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzY2Kf What the Flickr folder illustrates is that the Pixii can crank out a pretty good image, especially when it is sitting behind a pretty good lens. "Tape at 11:00."
Thank you for your interest, thank you for your patience.
Here are four I have culled from this afternoon. Sunshine, oh precious sunshine, the Prime Mover of our world.
The color and detail of the camera/lens combo here is good but not quite the same as what I have on my computer. The conversion from DNG to JPEG and the reduction of size of the JPEG to be posted here and the image degradation after posting are slow and incremental, like garroting. Here is a link to the folder on Flickr which has better copies of these images: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzY2Kf What the Flickr folder illustrates is that the Pixii can crank out a pretty good image, especially when it is sitting behind a pretty good lens. "Tape at 11:00."
Thank you for your interest, thank you for your patience.
spb_ch
Member
No access to flickr so could not view........on the above link but https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzY2Kf did work
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spb_ch
Member
Nice boat shots.
ptpdprinter
Veteran
I think the colors in those boat shots look awful. YMMV.
ThatOtherZoey
Newbie
I received my Pixii at the end of June. Didn't get to really shoot with it much as the rangefinder got slightly out of alignment in shipping and I had to send it back to have it recalibrated. But what testing I was able to do with it revealed that it can be a little unreliable at white balance. I would get results where the colors looked really odd like the above samples and if I imported the images into my favorite photo editor and did an auto-white balance, suddenly the image would look really nice. For me I found it is more unreliable/inaccurate in lower light situations (indoors) than outside in a bright sunny day.
This photo turned out correct when shot outside:
This photo turned out correct when shot outside:
Coldkennels
Barnack-toting Brit.
spb_ch
Member
So do you think they are correctable? What would you do to correct the images to your liking? I am not being 'funny' I would like to know and learn something on a subject I am a bit weaker on.
ptpdprinter
Veteran
I would begin by correcting the white balance. Perhaps he inadvertently selected the wrong white balance in the camera menu. Or maybe we just have a difference of opinion about how colors should look.
Coldkennels
Barnack-toting Brit.
Yeah, definitely correctable. Just dumping the image into Photoshop and hitting the "Auto Color" option (in the Image dropdown menu on CS6, or CMD+SHIFT+B on Mac, presumably in all versions) gives you this:
Now, it's definitely not perfect. If it was my image, I'd probably do it "properly" with an adjustment layer and tweak it to look more natural, but for an example, this'll do.
I mean, I can actually tell that's a seagull now, and there's at least something approaching neutral whites and blacks in the image. That's a big improvement to the all-yellow-and-cyan version version above.
spb_ch
Member
I did that with one image and to my eyes it was 'better' although better is rather subjective.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
The Pixii is effectively non-functional. The color profile is no longer adjustable to other to "Default." I cannot load newer firmware. It is crippled.
I am on a trip. I brought my M9 and my A7M III. M9 with Amotal. I brought a couple other primes but like that Cooke Amotal.
Hopefully Barth at Pixii can fix this poor camera. . I'd hate for it to just be an expensive mistake. . I certainly expected more.
I am on a trip. I brought my M9 and my A7M III. M9 with Amotal. I brought a couple other primes but like that Cooke Amotal.
Hopefully Barth at Pixii can fix this poor camera. . I'd hate for it to just be an expensive mistake. . I certainly expected more.
boojum
Ignoble Miscreant
A fellow in Canada recently tested the Pixii monochrome function against the Phase One monochrome function. Yeah, Pixii came in second, but a close second. Est, voila! Pixii Camera – true monochrome performance with a Bayer layer?