B&W SDQ-H

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding  is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Roger wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Hi S

Yes there is banding, but to be honest I'm trying to look beyond the draw backs and just focus on the image.

Back in the day all I cared about was the image and what it said, what it conveyed, then I turned gear head and pixel peeper, but now I'm going back to image first and what they can convey. I thought it would be with Sigma/Foveon but now that Sigma has gone to a Bayer sensor I'm rethinking what I'm going to use. It really doesn't matter, although I will not follow the herd. So banding, sometimes look like film gain, which is fine by me. Although I'm looking at Leica as they have a totally different look. Bottom line for me it's one digital, one film, that use the same lens system.

Happy Holidays

Roger J.

Banding looks more like film that been badly scratched, perhaps by grit in the cassette. Not nice, but it can be reduced with the Photoshop Blur tool.

However, the best thing would be to shoot four (or even eight) copies and stack them in Affinity Photo. It will align the images so you may get away with hand-held shots.

I think grain in film photos is something to be used as an occasional special effect. Generally, it's a Bad Thing.

Here the underexposed High Speed Ektachrome does I think give an impression of dusk.

Don

Roger wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Hi S

Yes there is banding, but to be honest I'm trying to look beyond the draw backs and just focus on the image.

Back in the day all I cared about was the image and what it said, what it conveyed, then I turned gear head and pixel peeper, but now I'm going back to image first and what they can convey. I thought it would be with Sigma/Foveon but now that Sigma has gone to a Bayer sensor I'm rethinking what I'm going to use. It really doesn't matter, although I will not follow the herd. So banding, sometimes look like film gain, which is fine by me. Although I'm looking at Leica as they have a totally different look. Bottom line for me it's one digital, one film, that use the same lens system.

Happy Holidays

Roger J.

Roger J,

I like your thinking and would go along with it in general, but would like to find a way to get rid of the banding, the grain is acceptable.

S

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Hi S

Yes there is banding, but to be honest I'm trying to look beyond the draw backs and just focus on the image.

Back in the day all I cared about was the image and what it said, what it conveyed, then I turned gear head and pixel peeper, but now I'm going back to image first and what they can convey. I thought it would be with Sigma/Foveon but now that Sigma has gone to a Bayer sensor I'm rethinking what I'm going to use. It really doesn't matter, although I will not follow the herd. So banding, sometimes look like film gain, which is fine by me. Although I'm looking at Leica as they have a totally different look. Bottom line for me it's one digital, one film, that use the same lens system.

Happy Holidays

Roger J.

Roger J,

I like your thinking and would go along with it in general, but would like to find a way to get rid of the banding, the grain is acceptable.

S

Just go over the worst areas with a Blur brush.

Don

Topazed them just for the heck of it.

D Cox wrote:

Roger wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Hi S

Yes there is banding, but to be honest I'm trying to look beyond the draw backs and just focus on the image.

Back in the day all I cared about was the image and what it said, what it conveyed, then I turned gear head and pixel peeper, but now I'm going back to image first and what they can convey. I thought it would be with Sigma/Foveon but now that Sigma has gone to a Bayer sensor I'm rethinking what I'm going to use. It really doesn't matter, although I will not follow the herd. So banding, sometimes look like film gain, which is fine by me. Although I'm looking at Leica as they have a totally different look. Bottom line for me it's one digital, one film, that use the same lens system.

Happy Holidays

Roger J.

Banding looks more like film that been badly scratched, perhaps by grit in the cassette. Not nice, but it can be reduced with the Photoshop Blur tool.

However, the best thing would be to shoot four (or even eight) copies and stack them in Affinity Photo. It will align the images so you may get away with hand-held shots.

I think grain in film photos is something to be used as an occasional special effect. Generally, it's a Bad Thing.

Here the underexposed High Speed Ektachrome does I think give an impression of dusk.

Don

D Cox wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Ceistinne wrote:

Roger wrote:

Hello Sigma

Here's a B&W from the H. There will be more shortly

Flowers

Roger J.

Rojer J,

Looks good but high ISO banding is obvious viewed at 100%.

S

Hi S

Yes there is banding, but to be honest I'm trying to look beyond the draw backs and just focus on the image.

Back in the day all I cared about was the image and what it said, what it conveyed, then I turned gear head and pixel peeper, but now I'm going back to image first and what they can convey. I thought it would be with Sigma/Foveon but now that Sigma has gone to a Bayer sensor I'm rethinking what I'm going to use. It really doesn't matter, although I will not follow the herd. So banding, sometimes look like film gain, which is fine by me. Although I'm looking at Leica as they have a totally different look. Bottom line for me it's one digital, one film, that use the same lens system.

Happy Holidays

Roger J.

Roger J,

I like your thinking and would go along with it in general, but would like to find a way to get rid of the banding, the grain is acceptable.

S

Just go over the worst areas with a Blur brush.

Don

I wonder how the banding noise reduction tool in SPP would do in this case.