Another pictures taken HS10 (full resolution) - from Poland

Ron Parr said:

That's not at all what I'm saying. What I said was, "the dark spots are perfectly representative of what things at that brightness level in the file will look like."

Note the words "in the file". It seems that you read what I wrote as if I were saying "in the world", but that's not what I said.

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I'm sorry about the misunderstanding - I thought we were talking about the way pictures are taken, not semantics. Sorry again.
Regards,
Leszek

Hello:

Well of course the Raynox or any TC will technically mount but not supporting it in any way shows the incompetence of the operators in the photo...At least try to show some savvy and put a hand under it, but they are insinuating it's all OK to use like this...Using any length of time without support and if lucky the lens may not break but it will certainly misaligned the elements enough to skew the results...Guess I can see the logic of Polish jokes now...This simply is BAD techinque...And these people are trying to publish some sort of review...

After seeing some of the under exposed pics, and this, I really doubt they have much knowledge to pass on...

lw

Photorealm said:

I particularly like this shot



Since that appears to be the same Raynox I have!

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I found that the pictures showing Soft sharpening and hard sharpening are swapped, be aware of this...

i agree...

Larry Winters said:

...Guess I can see the logic of Polish jokes now...This simply is BAD techinque...And these people are trying to publish some sort of review...

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...being a Pole and (unlike you) being actually able to read & understand what these guys are "trying to do", let me explain, before other bunch of racist pricks show us their prejudication and ignorance.

They are not trying to "publish some sort of review", and never claimed so. That page is just a Fuji fans forum like this one, and they were able (despite their assumed stupidity and an obvious flaw of being Polish) to organize one day outing & put together some sample photos (courtesy of Fuji Poland), together with some invaluable hands-on experiences, like timings, robustness, lens quality, ergonomy etc.. That's like a million percent more successful effort than yours in this regards, but obviously it is nothing, because they are stupid Poles, and they didn't support the teleconv to your likings. Yeah, I see the point.

But being just a stupid Pole, I don't consider myself worthy your precious time, so I will not translate their findings - that might be insulting to all the ignorant ubermenschen like you, I guess.

...people in that thread are repeatedly stating that they do not know the camera at all and were struggling at times to do anything but Auto/P modes.

I guess that it is also because unlike pro reviewers (that do have enough time to familiarize themselves with the gear/use it in the comfort of their studio), all they got was a camera rented for unknown period of time (I'd say couple of hours, surely not more than one business day).

Also weather in Poland this time of year is far from photographic heaven, believe me.

Regards,

Leszekan said:

Ron Parr said:

That's not at all what I'm saying. What I said was, "the dark spots are perfectly representative of what things at that brightness level in the file will look like."

Note the words "in the file". It seems that you read what I wrote as if I were saying "in the world", but that's not what I said.

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I'm sorry about the misunderstanding - I thought we were talking about the way pictures are taken, not semantics. Sorry again.

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Let's try this again: Suppose you have a underexposed image, so all of the levels are are between 0 and 128 (out of 255). This is an accurate representation of how the camera performs in this range of values. This still gives you a lot of useful information because the noisy parts of most images are in this range.

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