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from Chris Brown <_uce_please.com> contains these words:
> In article <>,
> deryck lant <> wrote:
> >http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/R1/R1A.HTM
> >
> >Quote:
> >The R1 produces excellent pictures with exceptional optical quality
> >at a relatively bargain price.
> >
> >Beautiful crisp 13x19inch prints with very good tonality.
> >ISO 1600 soft but usable at 8x10.
> *cough* Er, the 19*13 prints from my EOS 5D aren't "crisp", at least not
> compared to the same sized prints from 6*7, so I find that conclusion rather
> suspect.
We have an exceptional lens here. And only 0.2 percent barrel distortion
at 24mm!
This is what the man says:
The real secret to getting incredible detail from the Sony R1 is to
shoot with the camera's internal sharpening control on its Low setting,
and then apply strong/tight unsharp masking in Photoshop(tm) or other
imaging software. The crops above show the difference this makes. With
the internal sharpening dialed down, the images get very soft, but the
artifacts caused by the camera's sharpening are almost completely
eliminated. To compensate for the absence of the camera's sharpening,
you need to apply quite a lot of unsharp masking (try 400% or more), but
if you keep the radius very small (0.3 pixels, 0.4 at most), the result
is very crisp images, with virtually no sharpening artifacts, and
exceptional fine detail. (In the images above, note how the R1's default
sharpening coarsened the delicate stems on the leaves, and how soft the
edges of the leaves appear, particularly when compared with the results
of the Photoshop sharpening. - Click on either crop to see the full-size
image.)
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/R1/R1A13.HTM
This camera could be useful to some architects and fine art people. Dead
quiet too for
live theatre use.
And of course no vibration for longer exposures.
Deryck
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