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Ricoh - purple/blue looking colors usual?

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I am far away from "wanting" a perfect p&s-cam. Therefore I have a dslr.

I just want a camera without obvouis mistakes. like an ixus900 oder w90 - but I need 28mm...

Discussing this matter doesn´t take too much time comparing to that time I have to waste with postproc. 1000ths of holiday shoots everytime ...

sorry, but this should not be the way to discuss problems for me but...
and you have not to write here ift you havnt time?!

btw The pics of the gmx100 are quite more accurate to me concerning the colours.
 
caissam said:
I am far away from "wanting" a perfect p&s-cam. Therefore I have a dslr.
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Sorry but it seems so. Those photos were taken in conditions where we have no control. There are no ways to compare results with other cameras, or different settings with the same camera.
caissam said:
I just want a camera without obvouis mistakes. like an ixus900 oder w90 - but I need 28mm...

Discussing this matter doesn´t take too much time comparing to that time I have to waste with postproc. 1000ths of holiday shoots everytime ...
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I perfectly understand that because I take much more, without vacations. But it takes time when the same question is made several times after being answered. Oh, and its possible that you'll need to take even more photos than you're used to, because you'll need to fiddle with settings in certain conditions to get the best result as possible with this kind of P&S. Maybe you need a camera with more file processing than this one?
caissam said:
sorry, but this should not be the way to discuss problems for me but...
and you have not to write here ift you havnt time?!
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I have the time (not much) to give answers (if possible, I'm far away from beeing an expert here) to anyone that wants to read and understand them. Several persons give you proper and possible answers. "Yes, there is red."... "Yes there are reasons for that colour," or the WB, or the "fog" on the atmosphere, wich means that its possible that it may not be a camera fault. Maybe the time of the day can make a difference there, and the person who tooke the photos too... If you have the possibility to compare results on your photos, do it, if not, you'll have to take some risk.

Personaly I find more blue than red on my photos, because I use neutral colours and auto WB. It produces a cold look that we may control wit PP or changing the WB to cloudy, and the photo becomes warmer. That means it becomes more "redish" or yellow, so I believe that it could be a difficult choice on the conditions where those photos were taken.
caissam said:
btw The pics of the gmx100 are quite more accurate to me concerning the colours.
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It depends on the conditions and settings. I can only believe in tests made in similar conditions. But the GX100 is very appealing to me, not exactly by the photos I may see, but for itself.

And please, don't get me wrong, I'm not offended nor trying to offend you. I don't believe you/we should trust on those sample photos. Take a look on user photos in this forum. I think its possible to find more accurate samples and answers.

Have fun, and good luck!
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Cheers.............. Rui
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruinog/sets/
 
running all your pics through a "auto levels" or similar fix in software such as photoshop or picasa doesn't take any longer than transfering the pics to the pc. I'd suggest that as a first part.

Personally, I can't see anything wrong with the pics you linked to.. but after hanging out for a few weeks on these forums it's become clear that everone sees things differently.

Maybe we need some color calibration for eyes..

I can't read chinese.. does that site have any pics taken in the same location on a different camera? That might give an idea of if it was the camera or the view.
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looking for a small camera with the R6's wide angl & zoom + the v7's video. sigh.
 
Ken Rockwell made an interesting observation about the obsession some folks have in their quest for the perfect digicam:
caissam said:
"Some losers spend their time photographing color test targets, sheets of classified ads, brick walls, resolution patterns, star targets, and anything except something that would result in a decent photo....
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caissam said:
Many photo hobbyists spend more time on the internet researching cameras than they do shooting...."
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More at: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/wall-of-shame.htm

I wouldn't know whether this criticism applies to the OP, but he has yet to link to ANY photos of his own so that the Ricoh experts here could help him figure out what camera might be appropriate for his shooting style.

Luc

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Please do not start flaming me - you do not know me and what I have published in my life, ok?! My world is not the net...

I am looking for an good compact 28mm, r6, tz3 or lx and tried to get some infos here, thats all. After getting it and making an decission the issue is over for me...

Thanks to other for the help!
Caissam
 
i dunno about him, but it sure applies to me! ;-)

(and now i'm thinking about waiting for a r7 incase they improve the video sigh )

On the plus side, the price of the r6 has dropped by nearly 1/4 in japan in the last 2 weeks since i've been "questing".. so i might pick one up anyway.
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looking for a small camera with the R6's wide angl & zoom + the v7's video. sigh.
 
caissam said:
Hey, maybe its typical for ricoh, smog or fog oder bad or good
whether.
This is funny. I can´t help myself despite your trial for
explanations... (thanks!)
Most pics have a small popart purpur-coloured touch, a littel bit
unnatural, sorry, I am new with ricoh, normaly using nikon & Canon
dslr but this ... seems to be a special aspect ;-)

For ex.
http://detail.zol.com.cn/picture_index_2/12160.html
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I will make one last point. In the example given, I examined the proportions of R, G , B for the white awnings on the building.

They turned out to be R=252, G=252 and G=252, perfect white. I don't see how the colour of the sky can be other than what it really was on that day when other parts of the image are represented acurately.

I suspect that you may not be using a monitor that is calibrated for gray scale. Can you go to this site http://epaperpress.com/monitorcal/index.html

and look at the scale from black to white a verify if all blocks have no colour tint. Many people think that their images are either correct or incorrect based on what thier monitor shows them. Many are PP their images to the incorrect settings, and find when they get their prints back that they do not match perfectly what they thought they would get.

Brian
 
Guy Parsons said:
As for P&S cameras being able to print directly, maybe so, but
every image from every camera can always be improved a lot or a
little by some judicious post processing. It is slightly
unrealistic to expect any camera to produce perfect images.
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I can't help but agree with you. :) My understanding is that almost all pictures gets enhanced when they are printed in pro labs, be it from P&S or DSLR.
Guy Parsons said:
In Ricoh world I use auto WB, and Colour = neutral and then after a
little post processing with Paint Shop Pro the images look pretty
good to me. Even the simple controls in the freebie Picasa are
enough to improve most images.
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Yes! I second that with my GX, after some minor tweaking, in combination with the high details already captured, I can't help but love my Ricoh..:)

Cheers!
 
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