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I'm in Mass the same place you grew up! Well sort of, just south of there in Brockton.

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Group Idiot said:
Pete Perry said:
Brendan,

I've noticed the same thing! Always how poor his D100 handles any
situation even if you present evidence to the contrary.

Ok, enough about him... I'm kind of confused by your statement
below also... A universally known D100 weakness? I get very sharp
JPG's from the camera and the one below is fairly sharp as well...
If you stopped that lens down a bit his other eye would've been a
perfect focus as well and your image would've been totally sharp.

I don't know about you but I rather enjoy the camera!
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You're right on all counts. My wife actually took that shot
(although I did say "I" in a previous post), but I had set it in
"Aperture" mode at f/5.6 for some other shooting and she's clueless
on how to technically operate the camera--but she has an artistic
eye and good fundamental skills (better than I).

That JPEG "weakness" thing is a very relative term. I do think the
D100 doesn't have the ability to produce those really crisp
out-of-camera shots that the S2 and D60 can (and probably the D1x),
but if I want more I'm happy to take a quick minute and run it
through Photoshop. It's only a potential problem for people who
take their CF cards right from the camera to a photo printer
somewhere without actually doing anything with them--and in that
case they should be sticking with a nice P&S cam like the F717 or
5700.

As far as the D100 is concerned, this thing TOTALLY rocks! I'm a
know-nothing newbie amateur with bad taste, but I can get the dang
thing to work for me. I just can't see why people would rather
complain than do a little legwork and fix their problems--because
most of them are user-initiated.

Where are you Pete?

Brendan
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If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, I'm the world's most
dangerous man!
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Here's the image after a hue adjustment of -5(only right image of course), that's the most my eyes can see to "correct" it....if it's still green, I might need to recalibrate.


Greg Savel said:
great idea.. and maybe the original is too red
but your corrected image..... no offense intended.... is way too
GREEN on MY CALIBRATED MONITOR....
all that PS7 mumbo jumbo you pontificated about.... made the redo
way too green...

IMHO
greg
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dave newton said:
dave newton said:
Your image with a little Neat Image for high ISO noise
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It's incredible what NI can do. It looks so clean now! I know my shot was a little warm, but that was the out-of-camera color, and I didn't want to adulterate it in PS for the post. That was using the straight "Flourescent" WB setting on the D100 without any compensation dialed in. It seems like different FL lights produce different results. Sometimes it's warm, other times it's a little cooler.

I'm a little less demanding, so if it falls within a reasonable range (500K ?), I usually won't tinker with it. Also, her complexion is really much warmer than the average skin tone too, so it's not that far from reality.

Brendan
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If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, I'm the world's most dangerous man!
 
What have you done? The Granny was so warm and toasty, now she looks kinda sick. Yes, I confirm the greenish cast -- at least on my CALIBRATED monitor :o)
 
Sort of. But I would say some greenish whisper is still there. Just kick it up a notch in the direction of warmth.
 
Group Idiot wrote:
. It seems like different FL lights produce
Group Idiot said:
different results. Sometimes it's warm, other times it's a little
cooler.
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indeed, this is due to the alternative power supply of tubes FL (60 Hz). With each alternation of the current the salts deposited in the tube react to produce visible light, but do not last same fluorescence in each color. With the result that if selected speed is close to 1/60e of second, or faster) the scene is enlightened only by part of the feeding cycle of the tube, therefore of color different according to the moment from release. It and thus advised to use a sufficiently low speed to cover a whole cycle (1/30). But there will be always light differences safe by including 5 or 6 cycles, but speed would be too slow for the current subjects
regards
Bernard
 
this is a board of great folks.. we all know that

and most of us have expensive monitors that have been CORRECTLY calibrated... but it is more often than not that we do NOT see pics the same way, from a color standpoint.

i don't know why that is

critiquing others photos is marvelous (when done constructively) but talking about color saturation/correctness has little/no value here..... i'm sorry to say

IMHO

greg
 
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