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Some old photos taken with a *istD

Started Jul 3, 2018 | Discussions thread
Barry Pearson
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Some technical details
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As with all my images, I have processed all of these in Lightroom. That applies even to those that I had previously processed in Photoshop, where I have now added non-destructive Lightroom editing to PSD images.

In each case, Lightroom was at Process Version 1 when these photos were imported into it. So in each case I updated to Process Version 4, the latest, to give me capability that simply wasn't available until recently.

Especially, when these images were first imported into Lightroom, noise reduction and sharpening wasn't nearly as good as it is now. This means I can now achieve image quality from that sensor and those lenses that was pretty-well impossible to anyone at the time.

I assert that the *istD had a very competent sensor, and I sometimes wonder if we are going a bit OTT with sensor updates. Put crudely, I may often prefer a software upgrade to a hardware upgrade.

Lots of people don't like the Adobe CC subscription model. I see it as a good way of making my equipment appear better, year by year, than it was when I bought it. And, by extension, perhaps making me appear to be a better photographer than I know I am. I can sometimes cover up my faults without people noticing them. (I hope!)

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