Then I guess the rest of us are blind:-) -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That's such a load of BS Paul. > > I've seen and taken many high ISO shots that both have & haven't > displayed vertical banding. Unlike regular noise, the banding pattern > is, to me at any rate, highly undesirable & very difficult to counter > in post processing. > > And I didn't need to scrutinise it at the pixel level to see it. > > I guess there are none so blind as those who do not wish not to see. > > Dave > > On Nov 14, 2007 8:33 PM, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As Adam noted, the way pixel are arrayed in an image encourages > > patterning to some extent. Pixel peepers can find all manner of > > things. Viewers of photographs don't worry about them. > > Paul > > > > On Nov 14, 2007, at 6:07 AM, David Savage wrote: > > > > > Digital noise, or grain if you like, is one thing. Banding is another. > > > > > > I viewed this shot again today on my monitor at work & I couldn't see > > > the banding. But it's not calibrated & I also couldn't see any detail > > > in the shadows. > > > > > > I could see the banding when I opened it in PS and just looked at the > > > red & green channels. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > On Nov 14, 2007 12:48 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I think it's important to make it clear that, for many, digital > > >> noise isn't necessarily a problem. And in any case, it's certainly > > >> not exclusive to Pentax. At the very least it's no more of a > > >> problem than is grain in film photography. I think any vertical > > >> pattern here exists more in your mind than in the image. If one > > >> tries hard enough, one can find a pattern in almost any random > > >> array. It's like finding the cloud that looks like an elephant :-). > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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