On Oct 15, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not that I want to dampen your enthusiasm for getting a K-5, but your > NR adjustments shouldn't be turning your ISO 1600 images into > watercolours. How far are you cranking the Luminance slider? I avoid > going over 40 with that no matter what the ISO. Try pulling the Color > slider all the way to 100; that's safe and often removes the nasty > banding you get with the older sensors (*ist and K100). Thanks for calling this to my attention, Bruce. I am really like a blind man with a stick when it comes to editing images. The labels have very little meaning to me. At the moment I'm experimenting with just the controls under library/quick develop, especially white balance, tone, and exposure, and the noise reduction controls under develop/detail/noise reduction, especially luminance. With mot others I see no effect so avoid them. Checked the luminance settings on the images I spoke about. Even keeping it to 40 and under I still get the "mushiness." I tried setting color to 100. That has more effect than adjusting luminance. Without as much effect on the details. In fact, it strikes me as better by itself than with luminance or luminance alone. > But if you have an ISO 1600 shot and you try to boost the shadows too > much, nothing will help you. Make it a B&W and the noise becomes A > Feature. That hadn't occurred to me. Don't think I've yet made one B&W image. I'll give it a try. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "We have different explanations. So what?" - Brother Shankara -- 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.
