GH3 = attempt at Photographic Dynamic Range

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Detail Man
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Re: GH3 = attempt at Photographic Dynamic Range
In reply to Anders W, 5 months ago

Anders W wrote:

Detail Man wrote:

Anders W wrote:

Detail Man wrote:

exdeejjjaaaa wrote:

black frame shots from GH3 uploaded to http://sdrv.ms/Sy1aP8

Hmmm. Looked at the ISO=125 and ISO=200 RAWs. RawDigger reports no black-level subtraction being used whatsoever(?), and shows a very clean noise distribution (all in the zero bin, not a thing in any of the higher bins). The Standard Deviation is (in both cases) somewhat higher than that of the EM5 (at base Sat ISO=107) and the GH2 (at base Sat ISO=167).

(Manufacturer rated) ISO=125 ~ 1.3 ADU

(Manufacturer rated) ISO=200 ~ 1.1 ADU

See my previous post DM. RawDigger probably has no idea about the intended black-level offset at this stage but the mean of the read-noise distribution is about 144 so it should be about that point. Don't know what you mean when you say everything is in the zero bin. All I see in that bin is some 10, presumably dead, pixels per channel.

OK. I had managed to miss the noise distribtion sitting up there completely. I wonder what that weird looking "notch" is (just to the left of the center of the noise-distribution, at ADU=142) ?

So do I (see previous post). Got any better ideas than mine?

Maybe they originally designed the image-sensor IC to "clip" the lower half of the Read/Dark Noise - but then subsequently changed their minds in the engineering department about that approach, and had to glue the bottom half of the noise-distribution back using "super-glue" ? "Very tacky", indeed.

Edited 5 months ago by Detail Man
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