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Interesting pattern from M9 sensor


jmahto

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It most definitely is not moiré but an artifact of the remapping of a defective pixel column ... umm, four columns, actually.

 

In Photoshop at high magnification (like, 400 % view or higher) the defect looks as if it was three pixels wide—but in fact it's exactly one pixel wide. Carefully picking the offending pixel column using Photoshop's Single Column Marquee Tool, followed by a Content-Aware Fill, perfectly will take care of the artifacts—at least in the areas where the sand dune ripples are. In the middle and upper parts of the frame, the Fill operation should be disabled (by clipping the single-column selection or via a layer mask) because there it will do more harm than good.

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Thanks for checking the DNG out. I went back and checked other dune pics and it does appear in same part of the sensor. I also checked in my past pictures but could not find any pattern. I guess it requires a regular fine grain pattern (like ripples) to show up.

 

Anyway thanks a lot for checking it out and suggesting the fix. I bought this camera used therefore not aware of any remapping done earlier.

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It's a very nice photograph.:) I wonder if the line might be created by a pixel column defect repair (where the whole line is remapped, not just the recalcitrant pixel) though I guess it might just be a weird moire effect (there are plenty of other more normal looking moire artefacts).

 

The other pics in the series are on my flickr page (just started putting it up). I mainly shot with M9+28 cron and used NEX6 + 50 lux as secondary. Death Valley is my favorite place.

 

BTW, I came across one film Leica shooter while on the trip (his pic is in the set). :)

 

Death Valley 2013 - a set on Flickr

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I've seen this same problem with my M9 exactly once. It was on a photo with diagonal power lines cutting across the frame.

 

I did post a crop of the image onto a Leica forum at the time (can't remember which one, it was years ago).

 

 

I've not seen it since though, I suspect it's a bug in the software that handles mapped out columns. It's certainly not easy to reproduce.

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