The camera, I see now, even before Photoshop touches the image,
can be a tool for creating the image the photographer has in
formed in his imagination
Exactly Tim
Well said... some of us love making the camera "see"
what our minds see which is not always the same as our eyes see!
Mind you I'm not espteric in what I shoot and very often just take
a scenic shot of what lies before me. But often truly great,
spectacular photographs are simply technically lacking and that's
ok. I think some of us here who have felt things in some of the SD9
samples are merely expressing that from a "feel" viewpoint and not
trying to attack it from a technical aspect. Is like trying to
explain love to another person.. until you feel it you can't
describe it. Not everything, even in the digital world, is about
0's and 1's. Just at times here it seems some go really far trying
to explain things as a matter of pure fact and as a scientist who
also believes in Faith, someitmes fact alone is simply
not
enough! There is room here for all to enjoy, and when someone
doesn't bring us joy we can choose not to read their comments. I've
said all along thus far ( I am not a foveonatic ) that in it's
element the SD9 seems capable of making pictures with breathtaking
color and depth and realism. At it's worst it seems really bad thus
far but hey this is gen 1 rev 0.9 we are talking about! Just needs
time and patience!
Final thought: What is the name of this forum? DP Review. That
stands for Digital Photography Review unless I'm somehow
pathetically mistaken. Am I wrong to think that if the intention of
this forum was to foster ONLY technical discussion that it might
have been better named, Digital Camera Review??
Actually, BobTrips kind of managed to make me look at this issue
differently. I am ready to give up a little ground on this subject.
The camera, I see now, even before Photoshop touches the image,
can be a tool for creating the image the photographer has in
formed in his imagination.
Other times it is merely a tool try to capture the image as the human
eye would see it.
Both perspectives are valid in this forum, I guess. With the idea
that we are looking at the "tools" Sigma has to offer, for either
of these 2 things above.
Part of the problem may be that you just stepped into here at the
wrong time. There are all sorts of "you anti-Foveon troll !!"
accusations flying around, and, well ... everybody is kind of on
edge in here, a tiny, tiny bit.
