Comments on: Yesterday together with 120-300. ISO400+

By: Carl done with retouching..

Carl done with retouching.. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:44:26 +0000

Tesa! Ja, gotta ner dig du! Om du har semester och får för di gatt åka mot Götet så säg till. En liten fotosafari hade kanske inte varit fel någon dag. :P

By: Myga

Myga — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:47:46 +0000

Great lens and even batter shots, gratz Carl!

By: Carl Rytterfalk

Carl Rytterfalk — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:22:24 +0000

Isiah,

you’re right. Lightroom isn’t the best converter for X3F’s. My conclusion on developers are that SPP handles high ISO shots the best, Raw Developer handles low resolution shots the best and Lightroom handles finding your shots and color corrections the best. But in order to color correct you should have a better engine. :)

Oh well. One day maybe there will be a killer app.

By: Isiah

Isiah — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:03:40 +0000

Hello Carl,

I feel like Lightroom slightly blurs or doesn’t toperform the translation of .X3f files correctly. I see cromatic aberrations, and the colors on a pixel scale do not seem to smoothly transition from a bright area to a darker one. Overall the pictures just aren’t as well handled or as sharp compared to SPP. SPP gives great quality. I got good results when I used SPP to first convert the .X3F file to a 16bit .TIF then imported the file to Lightroom. LR handles the file much better. Do you see any problems with this process? Do you think that a 16bit .TIF files exported from SPP is as good as the raw .X3F?

Thanks you so much for your input,

Isiah :)

By: Tesa

Tesa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:20:51 +0000

Intressant! Jag har varit borta en stund från det tekniska, ja från det mesta märker jag så jag får nog börja gotta ned mig igen tror jag så jag inte blir gammal och “tantig”! ;)

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:53:52 +0000

Very nice and colorful shots! It shows clearly the advantage in color from the SD14 :-)

Greetings from Germany

Benjamin

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:11:51 +0000

Heeej Tesa! :D Jo, det beror inte åpå att jag lägger på någon skärpa för det gör jag inte. Men det beror på sensorn som jag använder, du vet den där med tre lager. Foveon. Den ger något som vi kan kalla micro contrast som saknas när det gäller andra sensorer som jobbar på en yta. (Bayern)

By: Tesa

Tesa — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:28:57 +0000

Ok, nu måste jag fråga, jag är så grymt imponerad av den skärpa du alltid får i dina bilder (jag tycker aldrig jag får den där hypercrispen, vilket jag iofs oftast inte vill ha då, men ibland så…).
Vad använder du för skärpeinställningar egentligen? Eller kör du skärpan utanför Psd?

By: spalbird

spalbird — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:01:21 +0000

Give this lens away, it sucks! (Only because of one reason - too expensive, you know, you made me buy the 30mm…)

By: Carl Rytterfalk

Carl Rytterfalk — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:13:20 +0000

Hi Scott! The RED guy? Is he talking about the scarlet? I’m into one when it’s out. Red is too expensive and DP1 has not enough resolution. But I’m very much hoping for a change. I’m pretty sure that a real Foveon movie cam would be a killer.

Macro portrait? Well, from 30cm (most Macro you get without extra lens-elements) I have lots of. And they look very cool. Especially going wide-open!

Good luck with it! (The DP1 that is) and if you have more questions when it arrives, you know where to find me.

By: Scott Robert Lim

Scott Robert Lim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:21:45 +0000

Hi, greetings from Los Angeles, CA USA. I just wanted to say I enjoy your blog and especially your DP1 entries because I just bought one!! I like what you said and I agree, it is not the perfect camera yet and if we don’t buy the DP1 then the DP2 will not come. It is such a revelotionary camera and something the photographic community has been waiting for for a long time! I never the movies you could pull from it would be sooooo amazing, my friend use to work for RED and he would tell me about this new vid camera coming out. Btw, Have you ever shot the DP1 in Macro mode for a portrait? Just wondering if it would give a shallower DOF. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to see for myself when my DP1 arrives today!!!! All the best.

Scott