Re: The Engineering behind Digital Photography
Re: The Engineering behind Digital Photography
- Subject: Re: The Engineering behind Digital Photography
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:42:08 -0400
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> Most current photographers ignore or misunderstand this separation and
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> expect the perfect printable (or viewable) image direct from their
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> camera. This is convenient, but also means that the information that
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> high quality cameras could collect is physically destroyed or ignored
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> in order to render immediately. It is possible to use such an image
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for
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> the one purpose that is anticipated, either by the photographer or the
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> camera manufacturer, but the advantage of the ideal negative is lost
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> and can not be recovered.
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> Just my $.03
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> Greg Remington
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> YxyMaster GmbH
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I completely agree that a lot of the optimization which was in the hand
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of the film manufacturers lies now in the hands of the photographer. And
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as we see in a lot of cases the photographers do not have the background
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to use the possibilities. But anyway it is nice to have them and the
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manufacturers have to develop the tools a photographer needs to handle
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them. One is the Camera RAW and there a re others as well.
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Dietmar Wueller
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Dietmar and Greg, and many others, thank you very much for contributing your
hard-earned knowledge so generously with everybody else on this list. Like
many others, I have been following this thread with ever great interest.
And, I think what is lacking in this discussion is the opinion of the very
people who make all these new wonderful products namely the Nikons, the
Canons, the SONYs and the Fujis of this world to only name these. Why are
their products designed the way they are, what assumption they've had to
make along the way about transposing silver-based photography to
silicium-based photography and how they view the optimal use of their
products (I am sure none of this is ever in any of these camera's User Guide
other than the basic, mechanical stuff). Of course, if they did, they'd
expose themselves to criticism.
Come to think of it, there is only Kodak and their white paper on ERIMM/ROMM
spaces that have ever published their approach to digital capture. And we
have Tom Lianza to thanks for taking the time to shed some light on the
pitfalls from his engineering viewpoint. And Bruce and Andrew and C.D. Tobie
and many others. But I, and I am sure many others, would consider very good
use of the list bandwidth if we had a chance to hear from the Nikon and
Canon and Fuji and Kodak engineers.
Roger Breton
Laval, Canada
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