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Post #AsFppZT63UlEuIelcm by [email protected] |
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#photography nerditry:Is it worth using a monochrome sensor for making digital … |
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The main advantage to using a color sensor for B&W photos is that you can d… |
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Post #AsFqbxsKc7UgVJXHSi by [email protected] |
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It also means you don't have to buy and carry around dozens of optical filt… |
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@mattblaze My favorite picture that anyone ever took of me was with a Leica Mon… |
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Post #AsFrFvTWxM2WdyzSq0 by [email protected] |
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Unfortunately, the way color sensors work can, under some conditions, slightly … |
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Post #AsFrig2vOtBXBnFtPU by [email protected] |
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How much this reduces the sharpness of the final image depends on the color and… |
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Post #AsFryEcN96KcktFoUy by [email protected] |
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On my medium-format digital system, I'm capturing so much resolution to sta… |
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Post #AsFs1UOsvJZGZYUtWK by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Only very very peripherally related to what you are describing, but … |
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Post #AsFsYLZyjzn8lqM17Q by [email protected] |
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Achromatic sensors generally lack not only a color filter, but also the "h… |
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Post #AsFt0kcLF92MX80Gn2 by [email protected] |
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IR photography is a bit of a niche, and is easier to do badly than well, but wh… |
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Post #AsFtK75DwL9viCkHPU by [email protected] |
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So you can usually easily make IR photos with an achromatic sensor. It means, h… |
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Post #AsFtXgPVuC632fhrIO by [email protected] |
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Are there other advantages to the achromatic sensor?Not really in my experience… |
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Post #AsFtwK4Q6R8OzjaaYa by [email protected] |
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By the way, I've spoken to photographers who insist that using an achromati… |
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Post #AsFuJimAPjh0HJD03U by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze X-Trans for me :-) |
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Post #AsFv284nhzNlUK6FoO by [email protected] |
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For me the bottom line with achromatic sensors is to focus on what they actuall… |
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Post #AsFxHsBQlYgOjppt0i by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze And when they want color photos they take multiple exposures with di… |
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Post #AsFxNAGkwzpoHKqlqi by [email protected] |
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@gregersn Technicolor forever! |
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Post #AsFzpsLOsHGkzVqAZk by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Sounds like a variant of "If it wasn't difficult, then it&#… |
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Post #AsFzpsR4XBo3H6UhPs by [email protected] |
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@cazabon Exactly. Plus marketing.(Leica is the absolute worst in this regard. T… |
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Post #AsG1p7DoH4LWkg3V56 by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze Kind of understandable, in a way. I know there’s a subset of photo… |
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Post #AsG1p7JpufAP3MsJTU by [email protected] |
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@NewtonMark I’m not shooting in “easy mode”. I’m working hard to make t… |
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Also, another practical disadvantage of achromatic sensors: there are hardly an… |
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@mattblaze I don't know if you do people/portraits but IR is interesting th… |
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@phenidone Yeah, it's not the sort of work I do, but I've seen some rea… |
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@mattblaze Interesting discussion about the methods for doing IR photography. I… |
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@EricFielding yes; this isn’t thermal imaging. |
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@mattblaze I had a really interesting answer from an exhibition curator last ye… |
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@mattblaze Thanks for this explanation. Your conclusions map pretty well onto t… |
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@mattblaze IMO, "artistic purity" is generally code for "I'm… |
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@NewtonMark @mattblaze I spoke to a photographer at an event (she wasn't wo… |
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@mattblaze Maybe that didn’t come across how I intended. |
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@mattblaze I didn't realize that companies were in on this. I've only … |
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@CStamp @mattblaze @NewtonMark As one of my instructors put it, "we are no… |
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@mattblaze What is purity in photography anyway if not a delusion some people h… |
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Post #AsQTOtE0QqgS6r1suG by [email protected] |
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@EricFielding @mattblaze So it is actually reflection that is picked up in the … |
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@ahltorp @EricFielding Right. Plants don't generate (near) IR themselves. T… |
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Post #AsQVl3tpcmcdUmIFDk by [email protected] |
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@mattblaze @ahltorp Yes, the leaves of plants reflect the near IR light. The d… |
