09-02-2012, 10:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-02-2012, 10:30 AM by Brightcolours.)
It is fine if you understand the drawbacks, and as I said, I would like this camera as a 2nd one too if it had less limitations.
The tree images looks nice, but it is a nice example of "fake detail"... you get absolute borders between pixels, every contrasty edge ends abruptly on a pixel edge and makes the scene "sharper" than in reality. One can get the same edgy sharpness by oversharpening other files (depending on the sharpening method... Canon's DPP has one of those sharpening methods which a little bit does the same and I do not like it).
The cat photo is a bit odd, how is that a 100% crop.. Strange <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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So yes, if you want a 2nd, compact, camera, with punchy contrasty settings and no AA-filter because you like the added feel of sharpness, get one.
The 15 mp foveon sensor resolves a bit more (if we disregard what the AA-filter does), so one can compare it with the 16mp and 18mp Canon sensors.
If you care about extracting as much detail as possible out of RAW files, take care about which converter you use with Bayer CFA sensors. For the Mac, RPP for instance gets quite a bit more detail out of files than many other converters. I have heard that Raw therapy does a good job too. The right sharpning method in post processing then makes the difference all but gone.
The tree images looks nice, but it is a nice example of "fake detail"... you get absolute borders between pixels, every contrasty edge ends abruptly on a pixel edge and makes the scene "sharper" than in reality. One can get the same edgy sharpness by oversharpening other files (depending on the sharpening method... Canon's DPP has one of those sharpening methods which a little bit does the same and I do not like it).
The cat photo is a bit odd, how is that a 100% crop.. Strange <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />So yes, if you want a 2nd, compact, camera, with punchy contrasty settings and no AA-filter because you like the added feel of sharpness, get one.
The 15 mp foveon sensor resolves a bit more (if we disregard what the AA-filter does), so one can compare it with the 16mp and 18mp Canon sensors.
If you care about extracting as much detail as possible out of RAW files, take care about which converter you use with Bayer CFA sensors. For the Mac, RPP for instance gets quite a bit more detail out of files than many other converters. I have heard that Raw therapy does a good job too. The right sharpning method in post processing then makes the difference all but gone.