adan Posted May 14, 2011 Share #21 Posted May 14, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Can you post a neutrally-processed version of the street-people picture? (Factory-default settings for your current raw processing program (and, BTW, what program are you using?), no other filters or effects or exposure adjustments (auto or manual) added, WB either "Daylight" or "as shot"). To me, it just looks like an extreme amount of processing - no sky should come out that green directly from the camera. Even under Hollywood smog. The actual effect in the top-left corner looks like posterization, emphasized by sharpening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 14, 2011 Posted May 14, 2011 Hi adan, Take a look here Is this normal for M8? "Rough Pixel Gradiation". I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Erik Gunst Lund Posted May 14, 2011 Share #22 Posted May 14, 2011 A neutral RAW converter is not easy to find... I would recommend Capture One Pro or Bibble Pro here. CS or Adobe Raw Converter has a big risk of giving problems like these, the sharpening is actually turned on as default, and it's really a rough looking sharpening especially for a sharp raw file the one from a M8 or M9... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 14, 2011 Share #23 Posted May 14, 2011 To put it simply: My guess is processed to 8 bits and severely oversharpened in raw conversion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnloumiles Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share #24 Posted May 15, 2011 I'm using LR3 but I was using Adobe camera raw at one point. Im pretty sure both images were processed before I switched to Lightroom. I apply either zero or very little sharpening myself but if the program did it for me I'd be bummed. Is LR3 safe? I have Capture One as well but I don't love the interface as much. Thanks for the feedback guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 16, 2011 Share #25 Posted May 16, 2011 You can set all defaults to your needs, but read the sharpening post in the M9 FAQ in the M9 subforum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Gunst Lund Posted May 16, 2011 Share #26 Posted May 16, 2011 LR and ARC are two sides of the same thing... LR has an 'internal' version of ARC build in to the Programme... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wstotler Posted May 16, 2011 Share #27 Posted May 16, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you to everyone who replied. It seems like now it could be a few things. I never thought it was the pp software or display because I could see the problem areas straight out of the camera in RAW that only are exacerbated when filters are added. Still I am not versed as most of you in the technical aspects of camera and software technology so I think only printing some of these out will prove that its the software/computer or a lens issue, or even a none issue, just the way the camera is. If Royal Corona is right the prints will be fine. I'll leave you with this image, as its not in the corners and it has not been edited except for a 3 point shift in cyan and 2 points of increased black. You can see the sky gradate a little rough when zooming in to 33%. This was shot ISO 320, Shutter 250, 1.4 http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8941/l1221287a.jpg Thank you for you input! John--I see this on a regular basis with *both* of my M8s, using Aperture. The RAW will be OK and not show this kind of behavior, when I'm viewing it "as shot," before tinkering with the image. I can get this effect easily by shooting in conditions *like yours* and then really slamming exposure (push or pull, 2+ stops) in post, as a fix. (Because I didn't nail exposure--or couldn't nail exposure--in the field.) What's puzzling me is that you're seeing the effect and you've said you're not tinkering with your exposure in post--that feels unusual to me. Can you confirm you've *not* tinkered with the exposure? (Note that your software may be "auto" applying exposure, etc., to the RAW when it loads--turn everything off in your software suite and look at the images then.) Like your post-processing choices, BTW. Solid, stylized, burned-in look about them. Thanks, Will Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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