On Saturday 18 December 2004 18:47, Rob Studdert wrote: > Nice portrait of an obviously lovely lady. The noise is pretty horrible at > ISO 3200 but in reality it's still better than you could ever achieve on > film at the same ISOs and then not even in colour.
H'mmm... really? But then, I don't shoot Delta 3200 anymore. The highest-speed film I ever get my hands on these days is Tri-X in Diafine, which I rate at around 1600. > I've found that the noise reduction program NoiseNinja does a pretty good > job of amalgamating low frequency colour noise in images like this using > its "coarse mode" switch, NeatImage is also quite good with low frequency > noise. Both can be used to manage colour noise without modifying luminance > noise if you wish to preserve it. Are there any such programs available, to your knowledge, for Linux? I am....frugal, let's say....when it comes to photography. The *istDS happened to be the most cost-effective way to get a decent DSLR for me, in total cost terms: I have been able to use my old lenses, which has saved me some bother. The lenses, for that matter, are scrounged as well. My favorite lens is my 50mm f/1.4 XR Rikenon (I bought it because I couldn't afford a real Pentax-M or -A 50mm f/1.4 at the time). I am making it a bit of a hobby to find "good-enough" old lenses at decent prices. As with the hardware, so with the software: I use the GIMP and Linux because they're powerful and efficient for most of what I need to do, and--this is the best part--they're FREE. gratis. It enables me to run everything on a very modest, four year old computer. Incidentally, if any of you guys at Pentax are listening, you all would make me really happy if you would support a RAW decoder for Linux. -Luigi
