Digital M 'look'

[pico]

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Looking at Adam Miller's M9 sports photo here, I see strobe-like stuttering in the OOF areas that I have not seen in film photography.

 

Could this be one of the artifacts we can clearly point to as specific to the M9? Is it caused the the way the sensor is read when rapid panning is involved?

 

(nice photos, Adam)

[pgk]

That's an interesting query. I shoot a lot of (sort of) panned images and I know what you mean about the 'stuttering' but that said, whilst I have noticed, like and accept the effect, I'm not sure that its a digital M look simply because I haven't tried comparison shots with a dSLR - perhaps I ought to. I use the rangefinder simply because I can assess the positioning of start and end of the exposure through the viewfinder and have found it to be far easier this way than trying to use a dSLR.

[pico]

Thanks, Paul. I wonder if it is an artifact of the CCD, so if you have a CCD dSLR it would be helpful.

[Luke_Miller]

My impression is the "stuttering" is a result of the post-processing applied to the image. It looks as though the local contrast of edges in the image was amplified. This caused the blurred edges in the background resulting from panning the camera to become sharp - hence the "stuttering". I doubt it is present in the unaltered image.

[250swb]

I agree with Luke, these look like post processing artefacts, very reminiscent of some of the more extreme effects possible in the NIK software package.

 

Steve

[pico]

Perhaps the photographer will make an original DNG available.

[iedei]

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somebody got carried away with shadows adjustment....

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(I am not sure where to put this post)

 

Looking at Adam Miller's M9 sports photo here, I see strobe-like stuttering in the OOF areas that I have not seen in film photography.

 

Could this be one of the artifacts we can clearly point to as specific to the M9? Is it caused the the way the sensor is read when rapid panning is involved?

 

(nice photos, Adam)

 

When a M9 takes an image, the whole sensor exposure is controlled via the shutter, equal to how a film camera exposes. At best one might see the difference between a vertical and horizontal shutter movement. The read-out of the sensor happens only after the shutter has closed again. The movement cannot interact with the read-out.

 

Peter

[gsgary]

Thanks, Paul. I wonder if it is an artifact of the CCD, so if you have a CCD dSLR it would be helpful.

 

This is from a Canon 1Dmk1 1/30 and second curtain sinc not sure if it helps

 

[adan]

As others have said, the strobing in the original linked image is over-processing. Same thing can turn film grain in scans into what looks like "reticulation." But it is not a function or flaw of the original capture medium, just the processing.

[farnz]

Here's a couple from my Digilux 2 too in case they helps.

 

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[jaapv]

To me it looks like jerky panning.

[zlatkob]

My impression is the "stuttering" is a result of the post-processing applied to the image. It looks as though the local contrast of edges in the image was amplified. This caused the blurred edges in the background resulting from panning the camera to become sharp - hence the "stuttering". I doubt it is present in the unaltered image.

 

I agree. There is some heavy post-processing on that image. Digital doesn't have to look that way. It is hard to tell how it might have looked straight out of the camera.

[philipus]

It's the post-processing, to be sure (look at the gray spots on the white shirt to the left), though my guess is that the clarity slider had something to do with it.