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The Pixel Shift mode of the K-1 is much too interesting to confine it to increasing resolution.

So let the pixels flow with this Pixel Shift Art pics! Done with FA35/2.0 in the late evening (#2, 3 & 6) and Zenitar 16/2.8 in the midday light (#1, 4 & 5) . Enjoy!

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Technical notes: motion compensation was of course deactivated. LR, DCU 5 and the K-1 itself develop pixel shift pics like these very differently indeed, so I tried different approaches - and finally #3-5 were converted to TIFF using DCU 5 first and then PP'ed in LR, #1-2 and 6 were processed from DNGs directly in LR.

Phil

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very nice creativity... :-)
 
Very cool Phil!

I get a picture in my mind of a special ZZ top device where instead of spinning a guitar, the K-1 does easy 360's - But be sure to first get yourself a very long pointy beard, zz-hat and dark glasses to go with the outfit. Have fun and be incognito... no one will notice you! :-P


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Wow Phil,

Love this but I do not get what you are doing?

Are you making multiple pictures and moving + rotating the sensor in some way?

I'm a K5 user so I know I can shift it, but rotating it is new tot me.

Or are you playing around and uses other (external) rotating techniques ;-)

Chears!
 
I just knew someone would twig to this and we all should have known it would be you Phil - top stuff!
 
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philzucker said:
Technical notes: (...) LR, DCU 5 and the K-1 itself develop pixel shift pics like these very differently indeed, so I tried different approaches - and finally #3-5 were converted to TIFF using DCU 5 first and then PP'ed in LR, #1-2 and 6 were processed from DNGs directly in LR.
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Could you tell more about the differences between the way these three software develop your pixel shift creative pics?
 
J Posthuma said:
Wow Phil,

Love this but I do not get what you are doing?

Are you making multiple pictures and moving + rotating the sensor in some way?

I'm a K5 user so I know I can shift it, but rotating it is new tot me.

Or are you playing around and uses other (external) rotating techniques ;-)
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Hi, Jetze!

I used the "Pixel Shift"-feature of the K-1 (AFAIK the K-3 II also has it) that originally is designed for increasing color fidelity and resolution. In this mode the K-1 takes four pictures in quick succession, and for each the sensor is shifted for exactly one pixel - so every pixel get's all color info in the final combined image. This mode is designed to be used with a tripod for best result. I did the opposite - I did those handheld and of course deliberately moved or rotated the camera while taking the four shots.

Thanks for looking!

Phil
 
Ptitboul said:
philzucker said:
Technical notes: (...) LR, DCU 5 and the K-1 itself develop pixel shift pics like these very differently indeed, so I tried different approaches - and finally #3-5 were converted to TIFF using DCU 5 first and then PP'ed in LR, #1-2 and 6 were processed from DNGs directly in LR.
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Could you tell more about the differences between the way these three software develop your pixel shift creative pics?
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Maybe it's simple to just show the differences - here an example pic, developed with default values in camera, in DCU and in Lightroom.

1. In camera JPG:

IMGP9954-InCam-X3.jpg


2. DCU 5:

IMGP9954-DCU-X3.jpg


3. Lightroom CC as it displays the image on screen:

IMGP9945-ScreenhotLR.jpg


4. Lightroom CC as it actually exports the image - Adobe has something to do about this, I guess, but meanwhile I took my artistic license with some of those exports! :-)



IMGP9954-LR.jpg


But DCU is also not without its faults, though. Trying to develop one of the Pixel Shift DNGs brought DCU to crash every time I tried ...

Phil

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solarider said:
Very cool Phil!

I get a picture in my mind of a special ZZ top device where instead of spinning a guitar, the K-1 does easy 360's - But be sure to first get yourself a very long pointy beard, zz-hat and dark glasses to go with the outfit. Have fun and be incognito... no one will notice you! :-P

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LOL! Thanks for the link. Just watched it ... Will think about my future special "K-1 outfit" for sure! :-)

Phil

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Russell Evans said:
Does pixel shift work with the sensor composition feature?
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Russell - I'm not completely sure what you mean here with "sensor composition feature"? Is this the mode where you can adjust the sensor position in Live View mode? If you mean that one: AFAIK this is not compatible with the pixel shift mode.

Phil
 
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