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There are tons of designs around though from 35mm cameras that are very compact, like the lens on the Olympus XA and the Rollei 35, and many zoom lenses from that era.  These lenses are very sharp. ...

I wonder why designing a lens to fit is such an issue.  They will have lots of optical designs available.  Just put the right mount/electronics on it and you are done. Jan

New Old Stock.  Something never sold sitting on a store shelf for years and finally getting rid of it. Jan

Hi Ted, Why are you selling your Merrill?  Are you moving away from the Foveon? Jan

SPP to tif to try and get colour and exposure right, then to Corel Paint Shop Pro for all the fun stuff. Jan

When I input my raws from my other cameras into a "full service" editor, the process goes through a raw developer first, where things like WB, exposure and colour temperature are adjusted, before ...

That is a deep well.  I guess water in Texas is not easy to get at. Good luck with the insurance people. Jan

I did the same but I found the lens too soft at the long end for my liking.  It may say Leica on the lens but it isn't as good as you would expect from that name. After using the FZ200, FZ1000, ...

What exactly did you do? Jan

A graceful comment. Jan

I agree that the shadows can be disappointingly noisy and that can affect your pleasure with your images but I found that for me, the pluses outweigh the minuses. The lenses on their little DP ...

Did you plot your Pan GH1? Jan

The camera is very sharp so use a faster shutter speed that you might normally use when hand holding.  It is not forgiving of movement. Always use raw. Jan

I'm just guessing here but the layers in the tiff file are RGB layers, while the layers in the X3F are not.  X3F tools takes the three raw layers in the X3F and constructs the RGB's according to a ...

There is a thread in this forum somewhere about projecting a rainbow on the wall produced by the sun and a diffraction grating to try and determine how cameras record actual wavelengths. I don't ...

I think that Merrill DR is much higher for B&W subjects like step wedges and clouds.  The software seems to tease out graduations in overexposed grey but if there is any chroma information it ...

Try it with the polarization filters too.  I have a variable ND filter that uses a pair of polarization filters and it doesn't work properly with my DP2M.  I get weird lobes of different exposures ...

Although I am opposed to creating astronomical images that don't actually exist, it is interesting to see how well you have captured the crescent phase of the planet. Jan

A scene like this is tailor made for the Merrill with its amazing sensor and very sharp lens.  It would be hard to beat that picture with any camera, even a full frame. However, go inside the house ...

Hi Rudi, I can't say I'm crazy about it. The sun is still up but you are trying to mimic a magic hour after sundown effect with under exposure. You are not seeing the rich colours in the sky that ...