duartix
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As usual with bleeding edge technologies, the porn industry will be the first to make good use of it.
First time I've seen a really cool technology where the best demo is in the video credits.
Very investing article on logistics.
The preparation tips are very helpful.
I don't want to give an artistic note because I've seen dozens of photos of this place, indeed I have friends that shoot it more than half a dozen times a year. Usually they don't drive for more than 30m, though.
fmian: Good thorough description of your thought process. I feel your post processing technique has more substance than the resulting image however.
True story regarding Snapseed, @fmian.
Leonp: As with most of this high contrast, high color, amazing and beautiful, National Geographic-like, landscape photography you best do NOT visit the site for a holiday because it does NOT look like on the picture.
I concur.
Who manufactures this sensor?
FelixCatana: I came here for the comments. Guess I'm too early :)
Come back. It's worth it.
CreeDo: Played around with this lens a little while back... not bad. Sharpness is good across the frame and it's reasonably handholdable for birds in flight. Not quite as fast as a Canon 600mmL lens but the lens hood is cheaper at least. Good weather sealing too. Having a carrying case for the lens cap is a nice touch.
Cons: no clickless aperture making it useless for cinema, and focusing ring is a little stiff. Tripod collar has a weird mount so I couldn't put it on my Promaster travel tripod.
Overall pretty decent but I'm gonna hold off until I see the DXO rating.
My only doubt is if you changed one single word before pasting from where you got it. ;)
ronniemac: Well researched and conducted review which unearths some of the difficulties Pentax owners have with raw developers not yet quite delivering - or not at all in Adobe's case. Clearly moving water is not ideal for pixel shift, even if PDCU has a fair crack at it. Rustling leaves can sometimes be problematic, but for other subjects, including landscape, pixel shift technology takes image resolution to a higher level. Reworking the bayer pattern sensor so that each photo sensor cell reads all colours of light is a neat idea, smart thinking Pentax!
The upgrade of PDCU provides Movement Control for the K-3 as well as the K-1! As pointed out in the review above, it can sometimes improve on images straight out of the camera. The program works perfectly with Window's 10. Although by default it over sharpens and over saturates relative to LR, this is easily controlled with user settings making for easy creation of tif files for processing and cataloguing in LR.
Good work, DPreview guys!
I was about to say that it wasn't Pentax which came up with this because the Olympus EM-5 II was doing it before, but then I remembered an arcane model doing pixel shifts around 15 years ago.
A little investigation came came up with this: Ricoh, 2000.
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/0223806629/newricohs
There you go, full circle.
Can the camera bracket a Pixel Shifted image and a regular exposure?
If so you could take great benefit from both in post.
BTW, Olympus's High Resolution Mode doesn't suffer from so much artifacting either because they have figures it out much better or because their 8 stacked images are doing half pixel shifts, which theoretically is above Nyquist.
"the 1080p resolution of the 5.7-inch display cannot quite keep up with the Quad-HD displays of most competitors"
I'd say that you got your priorities wrong. I also thought that dpreview had learned something from the megapixel race. This is so last decade...
OTOH I'll thoroughly enjoy the extended battery benefit, which is the #1 priority in most consumers list, BTW.
duartix: All this or send all the RAWs to PhotoAcute, wait 2m and then color tune to taste.
It's not a one trick poney.
It does almost anything than you can do with multiple stacks: Superresolution (à la Olympus), Noise Averaging, Focus Stacking and Object Removal.
The real thing about it is Radiometric Alignment. It does miracles on shaking vegetation and it's second to none.
I haven't paid zit for it's license because I've profiled a few camera/lens combinations. It used to take me from20-30m.
ZorSy: The fact it goes into ISO1000 territory and still produces enough details should not be ignored (for a smartphone). RAW isn't as impressive though but wouldn't expect many users would care anyway. I still prefer the LG5 approach in 2-camera setup as much more usable and fun to have on smartphone.
RAW isn't impressive? Have you compared the P9 RAW with the P9 JPEG?
What can I say? The RAW capture image quality makes me forget it's a smartphone, but then, the JPEG engine makes me remember it is.
But then again, RAW does not work with the B&W camera ?
Any reasons not to fire the SW team?
Seriously, this is probably the biggest waste of hardware I've ever seen in mobile industry.
All this or send all the RAWs to PhotoAcute, wait 2m and then color tune to taste.
Extra, extra!!!
Adobe wraps up a functionality that's been available in PS for 3 years and gives it a new name.
Read all about it!!!
http://www.lightstalking.com/how-to-use-content-aware-fill-in-photoshop/
Couldn't give a crap about the design copy discussion.
Any more information on how does this double camera module work?
Double exposure for 1EV PSNR benefit? HDR? Focus stack? Stereo? Superresolution? Monochrome like the P9?
PhilPreston3072: Yay for Pentax! Are we looking at the next phase in digital cameras? Pixel shift tech gives even better sharpness than the 50MP Canon 5DsR. Even the silver coins retain their circumferential dots. Let's not also forget no more aliasing and moire (as far as I've found).
FantasticMrFox:
"so it hardly rings the bell"
I disagree. Ringo's bell bottoms are clearly improved.
Ringo has clearly upgraded his pants!
On the other hand, someone should tell him that bell bottoms aren't fashionable anymore.
malabito: Can someone expalin to me what's so wrong about the rent fee of Adobe? I work with software and usually you pay a rent fee as in Adobe, or pay for the software but still need to pay a monthly or yearly rate for service and updates, after the first year, is call service contract. Is people really expecting to pay 150usd for a software and have it updated for the rest of the life every time a new release comes by?
The hook is there when you need to rework any picture. Or simply export with a different recipe because you decide to change the color profile or just need a different resolution.
If you don't pay up, the work you have done is not in your hands anymore, you're left with just an outdated output.