Re: K-3 & moire

2014-05-14 Thread Bong Manayon
>> of the first captures with my K-3. Probably because the roof is so >> prominent in my image. Not sure if it bothers me or not. >> >> Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >> >> - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" >

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >> >> - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" >> Subject: Re: K-3 & moire >> >> >>> I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two >>> images from the Pen

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
if it bothers me or not. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" Subject: Re: K-3 & moire I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it migh

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread Ken Waller
mage. Not sure if it bothers me or not. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "John Sessoms" Subject: Re: K-3 & moire I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forum

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread Boris Liberman
Sure, I only wanted to ascertain that I am being understood correctly. It often happens to me that I am not. I should admit that I did not see the moire on the PF examples either. I've seen some artifacts, but I wasn't sure as to what to attribute them. I have some more moire examples from Ri

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
Right. The point is I can *see* the moire in the example you posted. I couldn't see it in the two Pentax Forum images, but with your image, I know that isn't something wrong with my eyes. On 4/21/2014 1:09 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: John, please let me stress that this moire happened on Ricoh G

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread Boris Liberman
John, please let me stress that this moire happened on Ricoh GXR-M which has a 12MP sensor similar to that of Nikon D300 or Pentax K-x/K-r... On 4/21/2014 6:58 PM, John Sessoms wrote: I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it m

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread Boris Liberman
Bulent, I use only Lightroom for all my processing, so I couldn't tell. And as I indicated, this happens so rarely that I look at it as more of an unusual unexpected surprise as in - look, moire! I have RawTherapee Portable and I could pass this image through it... But beside that - I don't ha

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-21 Thread John Sessoms
I'm glad you posted that. I couldn't see any moire in the two images from the Pentax Forums, and I thought it might be my eyes failing me, but the moire is quite clear in the example you post. On 4/20/2014 2:22 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: Zos, this is the blog post I wrote back when I caught moi

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Ann Sanfedele
me three a On 4/20/2014 14:12, Paul Sorenson wrote: Me too -p Sent from my iPad On Apr 20, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Well that link sucks pond scum! Text but photos are hidden and very slow. I won't wait. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: http://www.pent

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Bulent Celasun
Boris, Do you know if this moire (in that particular image) can be remedied by using a different raw conversion process? (I presume it has something to do with the handling of data coming from a sensor with Bayer array). And if yes, do we lose some resolution as a trade off? Bulent -

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Boris Liberman
Zos, this is the blog post I wrote back when I caught moire one of the very first times: http://pentax-ways.blogspot.co.il/2013/03/catching-moire.html On 4/20/2014 6:17 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/241457-blind-test-k-3-vs-k-5-iis.html This one cau

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Paul Sorenson
Me too -p Sent from my iPad > On Apr 20, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > > Well that link sucks pond scum! Text but photos are hidden and very > slow. I won't wait. > >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: >> http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/241457

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Bruce Walker
Gack. That's not moire, I bet that's from seriously bad colour fringing and/or CA. I've never seen crud like that except through a poor lens. Take a look at the buoy, way left foreground. Huge red smear along its left side. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: > http://www.pentaxf

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Bob Sullivan
Well that link sucks pond scum! Text but photos are hidden and very slow. I won't wait. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Zos Xavius wrote: > http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/241457-blind-test-k-3-vs-k-5-iis.html > > This one caught my interest. The first file is the k-3 and th

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-20 Thread Zos Xavius
http://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/172-pentax-k-3/241457-blind-test-k-3-vs-k-5-iis.html This one caught my interest. The first file is the k-3 and the 2nd is the K-5 IIs. The K-3 is showing more color moire, but it could also be due to the differences in focusing because the two shots are clearly

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-19 Thread Boris Liberman
Zos, could you show some examples of moire that you've seen. I would be very curious to look at them too. On 4/19/2014 10:07 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: From the pixel peeping I did, the K-3 seems to pick up more moire because it is resolving more. On the flip side, it is resolving significantly mor

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-19 Thread Zos Xavius
>From the pixel peeping I did, the K-3 seems to pick up more moire because it is resolving more. On the flip side, it is resolving significantly more than the K-5 IIs. Also the moire is less pronounced because it is smaller. What I did see was relatively minor and would have to printed very large t

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-19 Thread Boris Liberman
Bong, I've AA-filterless Ricoh GXR-M with which I've shot more than 7,000 images. So far I've had moire on exactly 6 of them, all of which I can present for you to inspect. It is therefore my conclusion that moire is more a non-issue than otherwise. Of course K-3 has twice as many pixels as my

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Zos Xavius
SoI downloaded the k-5 IIs shot of the studio scene from dpreview. Opened the raw in lightroom and tried the moire tool. Total non issue. I think I'm getting a K-5 IIs. Thanks everyone. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:32 PM, John Sessoms wrote

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:32 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > > Moire doesn't really disturb me as much as that thing digital does with the > sky. Quite so; a viewable real world concern. (Which can be dealt with by shooting raw and sticking with a 16-bit workflow end to end. But that's--hopefully--anot

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bill
On 18/04/2014 2:15 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about the M9. Who would dare? bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directi

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce
When you are peeping, who cares about the pixels... -- Bruce Sent from my iPad > On Apr 18, 2014, at 2:01 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: > > But the pixels are there for peeping! :) > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> I'm using a K-3 for portraits and it works great. I have n

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread John Sessoms
On 4/18/2014 4:15 PM, Zos Xavius wrote: I'm actually considering a K-5 IIs right now and that's a real concern. The sharpness differences and fine detail differences between the k-5 II and IIs are undeniable though. I looked through a whole lot of real world, outdoors pictures and couldn't find m

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Zos Xavius
But the pixels are there for peeping! :) On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > I'm using a K-3 for portraits and it works great. I have never enabled > the anti-moire feature. More of my subjects have fabric on than not. > :-) > > Actually, you can A-B it in one particular shoot:

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
I'm using a K-3 for portraits and it works great. I have never enabled the anti-moire feature. More of my subjects have fabric on than not. :-) Actually, you can A-B it in one particular shoot: subject is wearing fine fishnet in some shots but bare skin in the exact same pose and light in others (

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Zos Xavius
I'm actually considering a K-5 IIs right now and that's a real concern. The sharpness differences and fine detail differences between the k-5 II and IIs are undeniable though. I looked through a whole lot of real world, outdoors pictures and couldn't find much moire. I mean its there if you really

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 18 Apr 2014, at 19:06, "Paul Sorenson" wrote: > > Shoot someone in houndstooth jacket or checkered shirt. And if they're in houndstooth jacket AND checkered shirt, shoot them, dismember them, scatter their body parts to the four winds, and burn their entire wardrobe. Yves Saint-Bob > Mo

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Ken Waller
Shoot someone in houndstooth jacket or checkered shirt. Moire usually shows up pretty well with those >fabrics Moire or less... Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Paul Sorenson" Subject: Re: K-3 & moire

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Paul Sorenson
Shoot someone in houndstooth jacket or checkered shirt. Moire usually shows up pretty well with those fabrics -p Sent from my iPhone 'cause I'm not near my computer. > On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Dario Bonazza > wrote: >> RAW imag

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Dario Bonazza
: Re: K-3 & moire I mean that moire that is visible in a given camera JPEG can go away "by itself" while converting the RAW file (of its RAW+JPEG pair) into JPEG with Photoshop CS6. Perhaps it's some kind of magic (an auto correction function of CS6?). Never investigated into this

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Dario Bonazza
... Damn, Iooks like I've selected the wrong AA filter simulator! Dario -Messaggio originale- From: Bruce Walker Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 5:10 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-3 & moire On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: RAW images

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-18 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote: > RAW images have a good edge on JPEGs for correcting moire. Dario, do you mean that I am less likely to see moire in the RAW image of a RAW+JPEG pair? Or do you mean it's easier to manually post-correct moire that you see in a RAW? I have ye

Re: K-3 & moire

2014-04-17 Thread Dario Bonazza
ion. RAW images have a good edge on JPEGs for correcting moire. Dario -Messaggio originale- From: Bong Manayon Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 6:13 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: K-3 & moire The local Pentax dealer lent me a K-3 with the challenge to trip it up to produce moire; been beh

K-3 & moire

2014-04-17 Thread Bong Manayon
The local Pentax dealer lent me a K-3 with the challenge to trip it up to produce moire; been behind on the AA/moire issue since I have not rush to getting a K-3 for myself soon (and I skipped the 5IIs). Any random thoughts on this? Bong   Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- PDML Pentax-