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Isn't magenta an equal mix of red and blue?  I'd expect deep, pure red (that said I really have no idea how IR manifests on a sensor lol).

 

I also don't know if 25 celsius is hot enough to produce IR that anything other than a thermal camera could see

 

What we need is an actual sensor technician, not a photographer/software engineer and a photographer/dentist :D

 

I suspect such people keep away from online forums lol

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Yes, Sandy is missed here. Your hypothesis is very easy to test though. Just repeat the exact exposure and development - but this time with a 486 filter on the lens.

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I've been doing a little research, and it turns out that sensors rarely have balanced native sensitivities across the colours and they are balanced after the fact, meaning one color is often more noisy - usually red or blue (not green as there's twice as many pixles) as they're effectively boosted by different amounts, so have different signal to noise ratios.

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Yes- but that has to do with the relative densities in the Bayer matrix filters,which cannot have any influence on the present discussion.

BTW, to emit significant IR in the sensor's sensitivity range (500-750 Nanometer) the emitting body would need to be at least 2000 degree Kelvin.

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Jaapv, I think you misread / misunderstood my post.  Because the sensors have varying sensitivities to different color light, the channels need to boosted by different amounts in order to be capable of producing neutral results, so if the volume is turned up to '10', that might be 8 on blue and 12 on red.  Just like two cameras side by side, one with an ND filter, would need higher ISO to get the same exposure.

 

Therefor the different colour channels have different signal to noise ratios, so it's entirely usual that the red channel (or blue) could more more noisy than the others.  Seeing as a photograph of the inside of a lens cap is basically just a photo of the sensor noise, it's entirely normal for it to be predominantly one colour.

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Ah -  good lateral thinking, different levels of amplification to compensate for different filter  densities. Yes, that is an interesting angle. I seem to remember having read somewhere about  noise levels per channel - now to remember where to look it up :(

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Yes, but as it is the complementary colour of green in both additive (where it is a secondary colour) and subtractive systems it is the default cast  for IR light due to the higher number of green pixels.

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Magenta ain't a color:

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I'm quite sure it's less, but obviously still a problem nonetheless.

 

I tried looking through my old library with M240 shots, and I cant find any examples where I see IR-issue as clearly as on me example shot in post no.1?

Unfortunately I don't have my M240 anymore so I cant do any new comparisons.

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I tried looking through my old library with M240 shots, and I cant find any examples where I see IR-issue as clearly as on me example shot in post no.1?

Unfortunately I don't have my M240 anymore so I cant do any new comparisons.

 

Discussed often in the past, with photos, as here...  http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/217200-m240-color-test-oh-oh/?p=2471975

 

Jeff

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