It feels nice that you have read my posts also
I check in here
so I know how the camera (14N) is doing... To see if they have
fixed anything... I am just wondering how many people here have
used the camera... Seems most people who defend it have never used
it at more then ISO 100 ( I have not used it past ISO 80 since it
was locked and this was only 2 weeks ago) Their is no perfect S2
either.. My 1st one had a CCD alignment, but it was fixed in a
week. It seems we have some 14N fanatics in here... If you insult
the camera and Kodak they say, "why dont you get out the forum and
its good your off the list since I am high now" OR they check to
see what other forums you are in and find some flaw their rathe
then address the issues I stated in my original post.. You do have
people going around and saying really ignorant things and they
deserve ignorant statments in return, but in many of my post I
brough up valid points that need to be address in the proper way.
If anyone says this camera (14N) is a good camera they are right if
they are talking about resolution at ISO 100 and lower...
Anyone who says the camera looks acceptable at ISO 400 is fooling
themselves... As someone else said, ISO 400 is not considered HIGH
by any means.. I have looked at a few images taken at ISO 200 and
400 and in most, the noise is horriable and I would never give a
client a picture with that much noise.. NEVER.. No one wants to
admit that I camera they defended and put faith in, as to date been
a failure, no one likes to admit that their hard work has yet to
pay off. I am speaking of Kodak.. But it seems so many user cant
wait to say they have a 14MP camera, that they over look the flaws
and seems to say, Ill but it now while I can get it and it will be
fixed later (maybe?)
I point out errors in the Canon forum (I have only used the 1Ds and
D60 very shortly) put I own a S2. I dont post in the Nikon except
for lens issues since I never used a nikon DSLR... No one want to
let go of the idea that the highest resolution FF sensor has
serious issues and Kodak is rushing this camera out the door to
make a quick buck.. They are tired of all the phone calls
and
know they will get more sales now then if they wait a little
longer... In a thread from Jay, when we aksed why dont they just
release the camera even with the problems he said, Kodak will not
release the camera untill it meets their high standards and is
READY.. Well pressure from the top, overrid that high standard.
If you say the camera in the state it was at 2 weeks ago was HIGH
and ready then you either need to stick with CF cards only and
ISO80...
They may fix the issue in upcoming months, but it seems that many
people are willing to risk 5K on something that they may fix... It
the problem is the CMOS it may never be able to get fixed via
firmware... Oh yea, the same company(Fill Factory) who made that
CMOS chip made had another chip that was produced before they made
one for Kodak... That CMOS was scraped because they could never
work out the noise problem...
People seem to forget that Canon did work out the CMOS noise
problem, but it was done with hardware support, not software and
Canon has the paten on it and Kodak can not use anything simular to
solve their problem...
I think very few people here understand noise reduction. If your
source has a lot of noise (as the 14N has) then you are limited
from the start. If you look at the ISO 400 images (an iso many
people shoot at) they have a lot of noise.. As Jay has said, those
high noise images allready have noise reduction added to them.. So
how much more noise can they take out?
I rememer when I was polled by Kodak when they were doing cost
anayis on this camera.. They paid a lot of people money to due
surveys... I guess I should have clicks lower prices when I filled
out the forms, when they asked what would you be willing to pay for
a FF high resolution camera..
