Issue with horizontal lines in a6000 raw captures.

RAW files consist of lines, off the sensor. Convert to tif with the camera manufacturer's converter and process that. What I see are refracted Sun's rays.

Have you tried turning off E-Front Curtain sync to see if it removes the banding? With such bright light and the a6000's E-Front Curtain being too fast at times banding is sometimes introduced. It's worth a try anyway.

GaryW wrote:

cwills75 wrote:

Have you tried turning off E-Front Curtain sync to see if it removes the banding? With such bright light and the a6000's E-Front Curtain being too fast at times banding is sometimes introduced. It's worth a try anyway.

Good catch! I forgot about that. Isn't it a potential problem whenever the shutter speed is too fast?

Sorry, i mis-typed, i meant to say e-front curtain shutter, not sync.  But you got what I meant
I've seen it at varying degrees under different situations, such as certain lenses when aperture is set narrow, using HSS at certain shutter speeds, large amounts of light, etc.  I think the E-front curtain (basically a hack not using the real shutter) is just too fast and causes banding sometimes.

That is unfortunate. I shoot sunsets like this a lot. And I mean a lot. I am seriously considering returning the camera...

I returned my a6000 for the same reason about a year ago, after receiving this answer from Sony about the banding issue:

"
Basically what you see on those pictures is an exhibit of streaking effect commonly seen on CMOS sensors. The sensitivity to this phenomenon is more or less visible depending on the sensor construction. Each generation of sensor tries to reduce such phenomenon but it is not always possible to do so. The 24Mpix sensor used on this model (and on some other Alpha) is a bit more sensitive to this issue compared to previous models.

This phenomenon is reproducible on all ILCE-6000 using similar condition (bright backlight shot and dark subject in foreground, applying contrast boost in the shadows) but it is mostly noticeable when some post-processing are applied (like for example brightness/contrast change).

In normal shooting condition this should not be a major issue."

Still hoping for a newer model without this issue one day.

JoeOzz wrote:

Hello,

I am a proud owner of a brand new Sony a6000 and took it for the first shoot today during sunset. I wanted to test the camera to see how much dynamic range there is and did a couple HDR shots, when I ran into an issue with horizontal lines in the frame during processing. The lines are there in the raw files, they are not processing artefacts.

See the images to understand what I am talking about:

Entire frame

Issue cropped in

The lines run through the trailer and are 2 pixels wide. I am not certain how they will affect print quality, but on my Retina Macbook they are clearly visible. Not a good sign.

I am not sure what to make of it and hope somebody has a clue here. Is my sensor faulty? If so, I think I could return the camera, it was bought yesterday.

Cheers!

This is a defect with the a6000 sensor.  There is no fix.  Sorry buddy. This camera is no good for sun-flare type shots.

How in the heck did you get 1/10,000 of a sec shutter speed?!

MikeBruce wrote:

How in the heck did you get 1/10,000 of a sec shutter speed?!

DPR sometimes inserts that false figure when there is no EXIF data.

Old thread, but interesting.

With an extreme case, and making extreme adjustments to Exposure and Contrast in Lightroom, I can see the horizontal lines.

A possible hint: For me, lines appear and disappear with slight changes to the Lightroom exposure slider.

Here's an example with EXTREME adjustments. Screen grab at 8:1, those are the individual pixels. The black at left is a tree leaf, real in the photo. The horizontal bands are the artifacts in brightly backlit area.

Horizontal banding, A6000, backlit scene, after EXTREME manipulation in Lightroom.