HS20 whites bleeding

dotbalm

dotbalm said:

Also, the boat is yellow, not exactly high contrast vs. the clipped area. BUT, where the clipped area is adjacent to the darker Phormium (NZ Flax) strappy leaves (brown spikey leaves) there is the beginning of some CA.

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I see that now ... had it been dark brown or black I suppose it would bloom like the bird. I had not heard about or seen images before that showed a problem to this extent so I thought it must be something like a filter.

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dotbalm said:

dotbalm wrote:

Yeah, I'm a gardener. I'm hooked. Phormium's grow all over the place here in the bay area. I only select the dwarf varieties and only the ones with flimsy / unpointy leaf tips. Some varieties get huge and when they're cut back to size due to being planted in the wrong place, they don't look right. With the small ones I use them to give a little formality using lines or symmetry or to hide something like exterior plumbing. If I reach down to get something near the plant I know it won't poke my eye out because I've chosen the "softer" variety.

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Wow! I didn't realise they were so prevalent over there. There are quite a few new dwarf varieties appearing here in NZ. I use Phormiums frequently in my landscaping business, usually smaller ones and weeping/coloured forms up to about a 1.5 meters. I am also currently trialling a few wild collected forms of Phormium cookianum that I found in a rocky coastal area recently.

The larger Phormium tenax is very common where I am, many of my landscape pics will have invariably have one in there somewhere.

Here is one of my recent favourites:

Daniel Lowe said:

Daniel Lowe said:

dotbalm wrote:

Yeah, I'm a gardener. I'm hooked. Phormium's grow all over the place here in the bay area. I only select the dwarf varieties and only the ones with flimsy / unpointy leaf tips. Some varieties get huge and when they're cut back to size due to being planted in the wrong place, they don't look right. With the small ones I use them to give a little formality using lines or symmetry or to hide something like exterior plumbing. If I reach down to get something near the plant I know it won't poke my eye out because I've chosen the "softer" variety.

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Wow! I didn't realise they were so prevalent over there. There are quite a few new dwarf varieties appearing here in NZ. I use Phormiums frequently in my landscaping business, usually smaller ones and weeping/coloured forms up to about a 1.5 meters. I am also currently trialling a few wild collected forms of Phormium cookianum that I found in a rocky coastal area recently.

The larger Phormium tenax is very common where I am, many of my landscape pics will have invariably have one in there somewhere.

Here is one of my recent favourites:

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Beautiful sunset. Phormiums sure aren't shy when they bloom.

Weeping forms? Hmmm, what have I been missing? I have been a sucker for weeping forms in the past, the latest was a weeping Santa Rosa Plum. Alas, it has to come out. Its roots are not friendly, the birds eat the blossoms before they fruit and the squirrels get the rest. The cost / benefit equation is upside down so I'm going to cancel its contract.

Oh...I see, just googled it. Yeah, I like the weeping forms. Hmmm. I didn't even know they were referred to in that way, but those are the ones I like, where the leaves start to cascade outward and down like a fountain.

Leif S. said:

CACreeks: Interesting point. As far as I am aware, the DR setting is not recorded in the EXIF. Am I wrong? I use Adobe Bridge to check these things. Anyway, I used 400% DR. I uploaded downsampled versions (by Photoshop CS3) that seem to have preserved the EXIF data.

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The EXIF does have DR information, but it is hard to see. If you use KimL's settings, the "Dynamic Range Setting" field says RAW, and the "Development Dynamic Range" field says the value, e.g. 400.

Looks like Photoshop CS3 wiped out these fields.

If you shot at DR 400%, then Kim is probably correct that you have dirt or grease on your lens, or your HS20 was made on a day when the factory decided to skip lens coatings.

CAcreeks said:

I do not see DR 400% in the EXIF of your so-called Original images. I do see -.67 EV. Maybe Photoshop CS2 removed the EXIF tag for DR. Did you have DR set? Might have helped some.

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No, it is not blooming. It is greasy or otherwise dirty lens.

Boo said:

Billx08 said:

DR settings are recorded in the MakerNotes section of the EXIF data. Yours was stripped out by Photoshop CS3. I just shot a photo using DR 400% using an F550EXR and used ExifTool/ExifGUI to see the MakerNotes fields :

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I just posted the same thing I think it was you who recommended ExifTool to me and I've been using it since. I still haven't fathomed out where or if super macro is distinguished from macro mode. The only way I can figure is if it's macro and full wide angle, but that's only a guess. I have one frame that I'd swear I took in super macro but it shows the focal length as 5.8mm.

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Yes, I remember that thread, and I sometimes post a reply just a little late too. I just took several photos using the HS10 in macro mode and super macro mode, exported the EXIF data to text files and compared them. Nothing identified the macro mode used, only showing Macro == "on", which you've seen. The only differences were to the filename, date/time, shutter speed, aperture, brightness value and ThumbnailLength. I just picked a zoom level at random for the photos and all of them showed the same focal length, 7.1mm.

Leif S. said:

What does IOW mean?

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