I think that is what has bothered me about that Fuji sensor. If you
look at pix by average users on pbase.com they seem to alternate
between really nice low light shots and washed out looking daylight
shots. To paraphrase that old Pepsodent commercial you'll wonder
where the RGB went. Maybe it is a specialized low light camera unless
in the hands of someone like you who is willing to really learn how
to use it and post process.
I appreciate your superimposed histogram in the one shot. It really
is interesting what they did with the curve in the shadows.
I have found some limitations of the Photoshop shadow/highlight tool
besides the exposure of shadow noise which one might expect. I
really hate that pale corona that surrounds dark edges that appears
when the tool is overused.
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Summita/pages/DSCF1140a.htm
It looks very unnatural and manipulated to my eye. I decided I
needed to work harder at nailing the exposure. Unfortunately the
narrow dynamic range of the Fuji sensor/curve seems to make it
impossible to avoid the corona in contrasty situations. I realize I
put the link to your darkest example which you provided to primarily
demonstrate the low shadow noise, but the corona is there to a lesser
degree in the the other corrected shots with sky.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jul 30, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Moose wrote:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> They had less flattering things to say about daylight performance:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> "On the downside the F30 is not as impressive on bright sunny days
> as it
> is indoors or at night; sure, the sharpness and low noise are still
> there, but the tone curve often produces images that lack highlight or
> shadow detail, yet can look a bit flat. You'll get some amazing
> results
> if you know your way around Photoshop (or similar), but I often
> (though
> by no means always) found the 'out of camera' results slightly
> disappointing. Add to this the tendency to over expose and you've
> got a
> camera that really needs to be used by someone who knows what they're
> doing to get the most out of it."
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