I'm hanging up my cameras - can't begin to compare with your work Juan!
John in Brisbane On 8/11/19, Juan Buhler, discombobulated, unleashed: >This was made with the MX-1, at ISO 800, in Montreal back in August: >https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/49035747651/in/photostream/lightb >ox/ > >I think it shows why I like 1/1'7" sensor cameras so much: the small >sensor look. At 400 or even 800 ISO, the sensor noise looks a lot like >Tri-X. This is, of course, when shooting RAW. I find that the jpeg >compression combined with the sensor noise produces horrible results, >maybe acceptable if you use the image as-is but terrible if you do any amount of processing. > >Compare with this frame from 2003, made with a Pentax MX and K35/3.5 >lens on Tri-X: >https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbuhler/49035249738/in/photostream/lightb >ox/ > >Developed by some lab in Paris, scanned with a Polaroid scanner at >4000DPI and resized to the same size of the MX-1 image. The digital >image is a little more noisy, but it's in the ball park. The MX-1 image >was at 800 ISO, also. > >I love how the MX-1 image is just as "gritty" as the film one. Current >APS-C or full frame 24MP and higher cameras make images that are too >"clean" and sterile. Granted, there's plenty of reasons to use them, >like very high ISO performance, speed, AF, etc. But I wish Ricoh made >an MX-2, with similar features and looks and a 20MP 1 inch sensor. -- 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.
