Sean's review - moire

[sean_reid]

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I was thinking the same thing when I first got my DMR (and still do) -- the extremely fine details and subtle differences in tones is the first thing that jumped to me. As a matter of fact, the details is so fine (in the skin tones for example) that it is very difficult to create a noise profile for the DMR for an image (not a target) as the noise reduction software can't differentiate between "noise" and "detail".

 

Right....when I first looked at M8 files from the preproduction cameras this past summer, the color rendering reminded me of paintings. And I mean that in a specific way. The Impressionists, and many before them, were aware of how many sub-colors there are in, what at first seems to be, an area of solid color. There are all these nuances of color that often are represented in photography as being uniform when, in fact, they're quite varied. The M8 has a wonderful fidelity to those color nuances. The rendering benefits B&W photographers as well because the color variations can become variations in tone.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

[Bob Ross]

Right....when I first looked at M8 files from the preproduction cameras this past summer, the color rendering reminded me of paintings. And I mean that in a specific way. The Impressionists, and many before them, were aware of how many sub-colors there are in, what at first seems to be, an area of solid color. There are all these nuances of color that often are represented in photography as being uniform when, in fact, they're quite varied. The M8 has a wonderful fidelity to those color nuances. The rendering benefits B&W photographers as well because the color variations can become variations in tone.

 

Cheers,

 

Sean

Hi Sean,

My take on this is that the Kodak KAF sensor family does have a very rich color tone gradients and this seems to be regardless of the color profile in use. Folks have often commented on the Oly E-1's colors and I have heard it about the DMR, too. I have matched colors from the KM5D to E-1 colors and there is a difference that I can't quite recover from the KM5D's Sony sensor. That difference is in the tonal and color gradients, just as you described above. I think that there are distict family traits to be found in the Sony, Canon, Kodak, Fuji & Foveon sensors, which come through even the most sophisticated processing strategies. I also think things are getting better, because I am finding it harder to see at first blink as I could three years ago.

Bob