Classic beauty. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 4:00 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > There's a thread on the RangeFinder Forum in which the topic of Nikon F > and F2 cameras is being discussed. It made me nostalgic for my old Nikon F > Photomic FTn, which I owned and lived with constantly from 1969 to about > 1976 or so. Which drew me to thinking about the early Nikon F plain prism > that I got from Charles on this list, after it had been sitting sans lens > in a box in his basement for an unknown period of time, somewhere about a > decade or so ago. > > Well, I had it overhauled and adjusted to spec, and found a lovely old > Nikkor 28mm f/2 lens for it, somewhere around 2012. And I've occasionally > run a roll of film through it ... it performs just as beautifully as my > first one did all those eons ago. > > So I thought to myself: "Hmm, I've never posted a beauty shot of the > resurrected camera..." and figured I'd do one for the RFF folks. Of course, > I usually do such beauty shots nowadays with the iPhone since they're not > intended to be printed to any size, just have to look nice in a small JPEG: > > Early Nikon F "Plain Prism" - Santa Clara 2023 :: > https://flic.kr/p/2ovSe27 > iPhone 11 Pro > Moment Camera - DNG output > ISO 250 @ f/2 @ 1/70 @ 6mm lens > > Now that wee little sensor in the iPhone 11 Pro is kinda stressed at > anything over ISO 50 (ISO 100 being the limit for a clean rendering IMO) so > I figured, "Here's an opportunity to see how good the new AI Enhanced > DeNoise in the latest version of Lightroom Classic might be!" > > So here's an "after/before" comparison detail clip of the image, screen > captured out of LR Classic… > > Enhanced DeNoise AI after/before :: > https://www.flickr.com/gp/gdgphoto/2191Gsz2ab > > Have to say, I think the denoise algorithm does a pretty nice job. :) > > enjoy! > G > — > No matter where you go, there you are. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.