hi all FYI (and FWIW)
recently attended one of the Kodak Pro SLRn intro days and it proved very useful, especially being able to try a few of my own Nikkor lenses on the camera and go away with a few test shots to look at - recommend that anyone interested in the camera attend one of these days (they're free too!) nice big sharp files and pretty straight forward shooting, even with no metering on my older lenses, and full frame means my wides are still wides... haven't had much time to check in great detail the files I have and none printed yet but some initial points to note IMHO from my point of view, moire still looks to be about the biggest problem with this camera - pylons outside the building were very handy to check this (and chromatic aberration - see later) and indeed showed obvious and significant moire in the fine detail - what did surprise me was that significant moire was also visible in many of the leafy trees along the distant horizon, something that really concerns me as an outdoor/nature/landscape shooter..... though in the grassy foreground there is none as far as I can see so far whether moire can be sorted post-shooting via software remains to be seen - a quick try of the anti-moire filter in Kodak Photo Desk had limited/no effect on the pylon moire, but did improve moire in the leafy trees (though this was on full effect so not sure what side 'damage' may be occurring) Kodak have opted for not using an anti-aliasing filter in front of the sensor in order to get the sharpest picture possible - AFAIK the a-a filter helps reduce moire effects at the expense of sharpness and cameras using a-a filter have sharpening algorithms to compensate for this (please, anyone, feel free to correct me/enlighten me if this is not correct....) chromatic aberration also a problem (depending on lens and subject) but the camera appears to have a system of software-compensation for each particular lens (once the lens-programming has been done and the camera is 'informed' of which lens is attached) - unfortunately not able to check this in operation noted the appreciable difference in quality between Nikkor wide and a Sigma wide (though comparing the 14mm Sigma to 28mm Nikkor a bit unfair - it did quite well actually) and also in fixed and zoom-Nikkor (even my beloved (sharp) old 80-200 had quite bad CA at 200!!....) - more likely that software can sort this though, hopefully I'm dragging my feet a bit over the camera due to it's inability to provide any kind of metering with my older non-CPU lenses (especially the longer ones) though Martin Evening of Kodak (who was at the intro day I attended) suggests that metering may be done using the histogram and taking advantage of the camera's wide exposure latitude (compared to film) and exposure adjustment of RAW file in Photo Desk software - how practicable this may be in the field remains to be seen.... The Kodak Photo Desk software seems very useful, especially the exposure adjustment (and other adjustments, eg interior mixed lighting/colour balance) available with RAW files - still playing around with this hope to do a few test prints soon wish Nikon (and Canon) would run similar intro 'try before you buy' days to their (equally expensive) cameras...... would love to do some of my own checks on the Canon 1Ds - might even tempt me to go the whole bundle and switch from Nikon?!.. ;-) unless they pull their finger out and come up with the rumoured D2x soon...... again, thanks to Kodak for the free intro day cheers Geoff Geoff Dor� Photography Nature - Landscape - Travel http://www.geoffdore.com gdp(at)geoffdore.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
