Rob de Loe

Are you familiar with Paul Roark's monochrome inkset work? Paul created the open source monochrome inkset, whereas Jon Cone went the turnkey route. I ask because if you use Paul's Eboni 6 ...

Many people on this forum use adapted medium format (and other lenses). That's all I use. I don't currently have any GF lenses on my GFX 50R. There's also a huge long thread on FredMiranda where ...

That is a fair point. In fact, I'll sometimes step away for a few minutes to "recalibrate" after making a change. We're definitely in the realm of aesthetic preferences here. I'm not shooting ...

Did you just hear a loud sigh, a very loud sigh? I've never used Lightroom's "Auto" setting, on the assumption that the camera's auto setting was more reliable. So I just left it on As Shot unless ...

A regular flashlight was bad enough, but lens quality took a dramatic turn for the worth when powerful LED flashlights were pointed inside!

I suspect I won't be the first person to tell you this... but I would not be sending the camera for cleaning because of a tiny bit of dust that is only visible at f/13 and high magnification. Just ...

The user reviews on the Pentax Forums are a good way to understand the landscape. You have to take them with a grain of salt of course, but the overall story they tell is often sound. If you do get ...

Indeed. I don't need better lenses. I need equipment that lets me do what I want to do. I mostly have that. There's room for tweaking, but I've definitely reached the stage where it is not the ...

I've used neither, but there's a 135mm Pentax 645 (leaf shutter) and a couple versions of the Pentax 67 in 135mm. Both of these will of course more than cover the GFX sensor. Reviews on Pentax ...

There you go! The mountains, the bushes, and the lights of the buildings all help to fill in the blanks for me as to the scale.

Thanks for sharing this work in progress and your thinking. I spent some time studying the full-sized version, and have two questions. First, I'm noticing an interesting vertical "layering" in the ...

The C1 version is posted earlier in this thread. The bad news is it's also magenta. The thread is kind of long, but the way it wraps up is that I'm having a white balance problem in very complex ...

This is Adobe saying, "You want RAW? OK then, you get RAW!" ;) In all seriousness, I prefer this approach. I wouldn't want camera settings to carry across. Case in point: I didn't even realize that ...

I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised. My first instinct was to not even bother expecting usable results. I'm glad we kept at it a bit longer because that is surprisingly good. I really ...

Indeed. All the tools are in the toolkit. I'm finding that the Shadow Tint slider in the Calibration section is extremely useful, and nicely supplements local adjustments. I agree. I tried some ...

I made a series of test shots of subjects that would show the magenta tint if it existed, some in full sunlight, and some in open shade (so no mixed lighting). All had a gray card in even lighting. ...

That sounds a lot like the Color Grading function that Adobe added to Lightroom recently. This is another new feature that I used to ignore completely because I worked only in black and white... ;) ...

OK, that makes sense. Lightroom throws away all of the instructions written into the file by the camera. To my knowledge, you can't even "recover" them. If I wanted the instructions respected, I'd ...

Interesting, because I made a set of 6 images in JPEG+RAF, shifting from 0 through 5 dots away from centre. The shift is plainly evident in the JPEG, but the RAFs are identical; as with every ...

Of course! ;) And now I have a very nice one in my ridiculously expensive Colorchecker Passport 2... I tried it this morning and of course it does what a gray card should do, but the scene I tested ...