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Re: [Digital BW] Hi I have a few questions

2003-01-22 by Jerry Olson

Lois, casio is NOT the camera you buy if you want a quality camera.
Stick with Nikon, Canon, Contax, etc.

Jerry

Loris Medici wrote:
> 
> That's a pro SLR... not a consumer/prosumer grade product.
> 
> I personally favour grain in mono work; I like the texture, look and
> feel it adds to the image. I frequently find myself artificially adding
> grain/noise to the image in Photoshop  - I gues I'm a grain addict (it
> depends on the image of course)... Despite being this way; I just can't
> bear the too orderly, patterned, non natural look of the noise in most
> digital cameras (inspect the sky in most images and you'll understand
> what I mean). This was the main reason that lead me to sell my 3Mp
> digital camera (Casio QV3000) just a couple of months later (this was 2
> years ago)...
> 
> Regards,
> Loris.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jerry Olson [mailto:jerryolson@...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:39 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Hi I have a few questions
> >
> >
> > Lois, I have the Canon D60, with a CMOS chip.  Absolutely no
> > grain, no
> > noise, until you get above ISO 400.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> >
> > Loris Medici wrote:
> > > Hi Jerry,
> > >
> > > Digital cameras have no grain but a grain-like "CCD noise"
> > which looks
> > > pretty ugly when combined with Bayer interpolation
> > artifacts (we are
> > > speaking about consumer/prosumer level cameras here). For detailed
> > > information you may read the "in depth reviews" and
> > "learn/glossary"
> > > sections of the wonderful Digital Photography Review
> > > (http://www.dpreview.com) site - every review has a section
> > dedicated
> > > to noise evaluation/comparison and hot/stuck pixels.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Loris.
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