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04/26/2003 12:48:40 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by drdab99:
Azrifel, would you mind expanding on the reasons you use 6mp soft sharpening when you shoot? I use 6mp normal sharpening at normal mode (I couldn't tell the difference between 6mp normal and fine modes no matter how much I enlarged the image). |
There is a lot of different opinions on this particular subject....some people think normal (this function actually has in camera sharpening) looks too sharp so they use soft (which has no in camera sharpening) and they use USM in photoshop.
personally i have done tests and i found that normal at 3mp produces the best image , i have tested soft and used USM and found the overall quality better on normal.
Now bear in mind there has been extensive discussions on this sublect at the fuji forum and its a matter of taste, take 2 photos with normal and soft compare then USM the soft one and compare again and draw your own conclusion. |
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04/26/2003 04:43:54 AM · #27 |
Yes i also done a test with soft,usm and normal sharpening.
I also prefer using normal mode but 6mp fine if i have the storage space.
It`s the best value camera for the money i beleive.
And apart from interchangeble lenses it is a DSLR.
And you can get wide angle and x10 zoom adapters which i`m guessing is a range of about 30mm - 500mm.
What more do you need.
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04/26/2003 05:56:34 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by marbo:
And you can get wide angle and x10 zoom adapters which i`m guessing is a range of about 30mm - 500mm.
What more do you need. |
Hi Mark, can you tell me where to find those x 10 adapters? I thought the Fuji W/A and 1.5x Zoom were the only add-ons available. |
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04/26/2003 06:06:00 AM · #29 |
What i mean is olympus do a 55mm 1.7x which would make the zoom up to about 10x instead of 6x. I think.
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04/27/2003 01:28:33 AM · #30 |
There's a guy on DPReview.com that was selling a 9x tele lens for the Fuji a while back (home made), but not sure if he is still. He posted a pic of it once... the thing was about a foot long. You'd have to use this lens in very high light situations because of the light loss, and a tripod is manditory.
Anyone that's interested, in the "Fuji" forum, search for "paulr 9x".
As for me, I make due with an Oly B300 1.7x tele lens. Works great I love this lens.
Message edited by author 2003-04-27 01:29:50. |
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04/27/2003 04:58:36 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by drdab99:
Azrifel, would you mind expanding on the reasons you use 6mp soft sharpening when you shoot? I use 6mp normal sharpening at normal mode (I couldn't tell the difference between 6mp normal and fine modes no matter how much I enlarged the image). |
I only use 6mp fine and even fine sometimes isn't enough when it comes to jpeg quality in some cases. I can see the jpeg blocking in normal shots, especially with a very busy scene. It might not show in prints, but I just don't want it. Because I have a 340mb Microdrive and a laptop, memory usually isn't an issue.
I use soft sharpening because it gives cleaner pics that I can sharpen better while the pic stays clean. The main problems of normal sharpening in 6mp mode is oversharpening of noise and details and creating halos around certain parts of subjects. The oversharpened parts are then compressed by the cameras jpeg algoritm just a bit too much to my taste.
For example, in normal sharpening the sky contains small blocks and a little bit of jpeg noise because of the interpolation. At soft sharpening the sky is much cleaner and after USM is stays clean.
Some of my 6mp fine soft -on tripod at F5.6 midzoom- pics are so clean that you could mistake them for real 6mp images. 6mp soft tiff's are even better. It matters a lot to me because some of my pics end up in books (low number of copies, nothing stunning).
Sharpening afterwards is a lot more work though. :(
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04/27/2003 05:00:12 AM · #32 |
The B300 is now replaced by the TCon-17 or something like that. Should be just as good. Some people ask huge sums for B300's. :(
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