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« Reply #820 on: March 08, 2013, 05:17:21 PM » |
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I went to the Sigma download page for the DP1 Firmware update but cannot find the button to push or link to download.
HWere is it??
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« Reply #822 on: March 09, 2013, 11:18:52 AM » |
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How does one do HDR with the DP2 files? None of the processors handle these raw files. JUST do the merges on the 16 bit tiffs from SPP?? or is there another option?
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« Reply #823 on: March 09, 2013, 12:04:14 PM » |
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Yep, just convert to tiff , send to Lightroom or Photoshop or whatever and your favorite HDR plug-in . Works just fine.
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« Reply #824 on: March 09, 2013, 01:45:18 PM » |
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Juan, banding in your pics might be a result of to much fill light combined with extensive curve bending in another program (Photoshop?). I had a look at your pic of the beautiful pine tree at flickr. The colored version has no banding but the halos around the tree point to a fill light problem. Obviously the tree was to dark or the sky to light and you had to compensate for this. In such cases it's dangerous to use fill light alone. I almost always give the same amount of contrast when I use fill light. The picture looks overexposed then and you need to compensate with the exposure slider. Over- and underexposure can be corrected with the highlights and shadows slider. My rule of thumb is the following: Contrast >= Fill Light = negative Exposure Have you done the BW-conversion in SPP or in another program? SPP 5.5 is quite usable for that  Uwe 8-) |
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« Reply #825 on: March 09, 2013, 01:50:43 PM » |
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The banding is a hardware problem. It can be soldering around the sensor, electrical leak between layers, a bad electromagnetic shielding (maybe it is why the battery is so small), it seems to appear on a batch of sensors who might have a little default or another component around the sensor ... and so on. Be sure we will never know what is the true cause of this If it was only firmware and software problem, this would have been sorted Looooonnnggg ago. |
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« Reply #826 on: March 09, 2013, 03:06:44 PM » |
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If it was only firmware and software problem, this would have been sorted Looooonnnggg ago.
Actually, it sounds like uvl just might have it sorted now.... |
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« Reply #827 on: March 09, 2013, 04:47:28 PM » |
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Yes Hulyss, partially. This is a hardware problem for almost all digital cameras. It has to be dealt with more or less. Usually camera software is able to sort this out. The price for this are other artefacts.
Juans pics show banding only in BW-conversions. Color pics are OK even with 1.0 fill light. Maybe it's just a little bug in his BW workflow.
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« Reply #828 on: March 10, 2013, 05:19:56 AM » |
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Thanks guys. I see banding always in my B&W pics that I procesed with Silver Effex. I think that this is the problem.
Thanks!!
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« Reply #829 on: March 10, 2013, 07:08:35 PM » |
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A relative novice here. What I know about photography could be rolled around in a thimble, but I bought the DP2Merrill last week and want to dip my toe into landscape and architectural photography. I just hope I'm not the fool for having chosen such a persnickity instrument through which to learn. I think it will be a camera that I can grow into and whose output I can enjoy immensely if I take a deliberate approach, and that is my hope.
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« Reply #830 on: March 10, 2013, 11:30:30 PM » |
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It would not be my choice for a first camera only because there is a higher risk of less keepers, and because I think it lends itself to a smaller range of options then a normal camera, BUT, it will be a fun challenging trip for you.
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« Reply #831 on: March 10, 2013, 11:42:04 PM » |
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Sedona Arizona on a breathtakingly beautiful Sunday. ISO 100, f6.3, 1/800.  |
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« Reply #833 on: March 11, 2013, 07:58:47 PM » |
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Terrible skin tones on the DP2M!!! I'm horrified....  What a lovely model. Beautiful photo. Hulyss, you sure they didn't fix colors w/ the latest firmware? This example is lovely. Rand |
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« Reply #834 on: March 11, 2013, 08:03:06 PM » |
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Sedona Arizona on a breathtakingly beautiful Sunday. ISO 100, f6.3, 1/800. Thank goodness someone around here besides me posts Landscapes. I was at Oak Creek Canyon last fall to hike and shoot. Amazing place. Really, really beautiful. Too bad I didn't have a Merrill at that time.  |
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« Reply #837 on: March 12, 2013, 08:27:32 PM » |
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First time out with the DP2M. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm having a good time.
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« Reply #838 on: March 17, 2013, 02:46:38 AM » |
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Here are some B&W.
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« Reply #839 on: March 17, 2013, 02:50:21 AM » |
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Another shot.
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