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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 04:38 1st Post
My shiny new D200 IR from Eric.

Although I still have my D1 IR, I find the controls a bit antiquated and strange so I have tended not to use it as often as I would like. I enjoy exploring the invisible spectrum but having other interests it's been taking a back seat recently. I also feel the tonal range and low resolution are a bit limiting, especially if I want to be creative and combine IR and normal exposures into one image.

Here is one of the first images I have made using Eric's 'old' camera. It's set up perfectly and seems very much better than the D1 in every regard.

This is slightly cropped and mildly adjusted in Lightroom 3.6.

Attachment: Apples IR.jpg (Downloaded 79 times)



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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 04:41 2nd Post
I thought I would have a little play...

Created three layers, colorised the two back layers then drilled through with an eraser brush to reveal the apples and branch. Great fun!

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Posted by MaxSouthOz: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 04:47 3rd Post
They look good enough to eat, Robert.  :thumbsup:



Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 04:50 4th Post
Thanks Max, I was tempted!

Look out for the windfalls later...



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Posted by Eric: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 12:51 5th Post
And I thought I had emptied that body of all it's good images!!!!!!

:needsahug:



Did I mention it was only a loan?

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Posted by jk: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 14:41 6th Post
Nice work Robert.
Enjoy.
I will need to get working with my D70IR again. I want to try and get a Fuji XE1 converted to IR use.



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Posted by TomOC: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 14:58 7th Post
Looks really good, Robert.

Yet more eye candy to push me to make a conversion...

Cheers,

Tom



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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 17:29 8th Post
jk wrote:
Nice work Robert.
Enjoy.
I will need to get working with my D70IR again. I want to try and get a Fuji XE1 converted to IR use.

Thank you Jonathan, I am really happy with my new friend! I think I have resolved a minor focusing issue too. :thumbsup:

Don't you have a D300? I would think that would convert nicely. These tiny cameras are all very well but why not recycle... ;-)



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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 17:33 9th Post
TomOC wrote:
Looks really good, Robert.

Yet more eye candy to push me to make a conversion...

Cheers,

Tom

Thanks Tom, I am currently editing another one and I can see flies legs at three yards plus. Amazing! Wouldn't have even seen the fly with the D1. <vbg>



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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 17:57 10th Post
A bit lame but having spent my spare time today creating this I may as well post it...

The black dots on two of the apples on the left are flies, at 100% magnification I can clearly see their legs.

Windfall.

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Posted by jk: Sat Aug 9th, 2014 18:10 11th Post
Robert wrote:
jk wrote:
Nice work Robert.
Enjoy.
I will need to get working with my D70IR again. I want to try and get a Fuji XE1 converted to IR use.

Thank you Jonathan, I am really happy with my new friend! I think I have resolved a minor focusing issue too. :thumbsup:

Don't you have a D300? I would think that would convert nicely. These tiny cameras are all very well but why not recycle... ;-)

The D300 is my underwater camera for macro, I have another old D70 for my wideangle underwater stuff.
My D1x awaits your tender care for UV conversion.

I am waiting to see what Nikon and Fuji have up their sleeves at Photokina in mid-September. If the D400 or the like comes then that works for me but if Fuji release the XPro2 then I may well dump almost all of my Nikon gear and go Fuji.
To do that the XPro2 will need to have even better AF than the XT1 or as good AF speed as my Nikon D300 or D3 and also be 20-24MP, the XPro1 will then be converted to IR.



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Posted by Robert: Sun Aug 10th, 2014 08:04 12th Post
jk wrote:

My D1x awaits your tender care for UV conversion.
My as new Philips 00 is at the ready!

In the meantime having forgotten to save the 'Windfall' image I spent the morning creating this:

Taken with D200IR with Nikkor 18-105 f3.5-5.6 VR

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Posted by Robert: Sun Aug 10th, 2014 08:08 13th Post
From this:

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Posted by Robert: Sun Aug 10th, 2014 08:09 14th Post
100% Crop in PS. Please bear in mind this image has been reduced in size by the forum software by about 50%.

I haven't done side by side but I think the IR conversion has increased the D200 sharpness due the absence of an anti-aliasing filter.

Cows legs (Top left) just defined on my screen at about three miles seems pretty good to me.

Attachment: Oakdale IR 100% Crop.jpg (Downloaded 58 times)



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Posted by Robert: Sun Aug 10th, 2014 08:25 15th Post
The EXIF:

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Posted by Robert: Mon Aug 11th, 2014 02:29 16th Post
The pre-process settings in Lightroom 3.6:

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Posted by Eric: Mon Aug 11th, 2014 17:57 17th Post
Robert wrote:
The pre-process settings in Lightroom 3.6:
Robert, if you adjust the tint to -80/84 you will get a more sepia, less red, starting image, more akin to the D70. It can give a bluer result to the blues .when flipping channels.



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Posted by Robert: Mon Aug 11th, 2014 18:08 18th Post
Thanks Eric, another tip for my edufication! I rarely, if ever, touch the tint settings in Lightroom (usually a last resort when all else fails!!!) but I will give it a try next time.

I have often wondered about varying the channel swap slightly to influence the final tones especially the sky. Perhaps my Victoria sponge of layers needs the channels switching slightly differently for each layer. Bit more blue for the sky etc... Just to help things along.



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Posted by Eric: Mon Aug 11th, 2014 19:48 19th Post
Robert wrote:
Thanks Eric, another tip for my edufication! I rarely, if ever, touch the tint settings in Lightroom (usually a last resort when all else fails!!!) but I will give it a try next time.

I have often wondered about varying the channel swap slightly to influence the final tones especially the sky. Perhaps my Victoria sponge of layers needs the channels switching slightly differently for each layer. Bit more blue for the sky etc... Just to help things along.

Sorry forgot to mention my starting point.

I found that starting from the default d200 settings left the converted image more in the cyan/ green area of blue as the starting (opposite) colour is this slightly red/magenta hue.

By shifting the tint closer to yellow you are instead starting from the complimentary colour of blue.

The interesting thing is that you don't actually need to calibrate the camera WB. If you just shoot on auto...then set the temperature to 2000 and the tint to -80 it should give you same result.

I just remembered this discovery.... I should do this on Fuji!!!!!!!!!!!


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Posted by jk: Tue Aug 12th, 2014 19:13 20th Post
What was the replacement filter that was fitted to the D200 ?

The RAW rendering looks different to the images from my D70 (720nm filter fitted) which seems to produce a browner result SOOC.

Was it 720, 660, 590 nm or some other?



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Posted by Robert: Tue Aug 12th, 2014 19:15 21st Post
720nm. The 'normal' IR pass filter as far as I know.



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Posted by jk: Tue Aug 12th, 2014 19:26 22nd Post
Hmmm.. When LifePixel first offered these filters did we all get the same ones? I think that we bought ours first then when Eric got his there was a new improved version that he got. Maybe I dont remember accurately the exact changes they made to the filter but I think it was a subtle change.


I think we will need to meet up at Westonbirt again with the IR cameras and compare results. I will probably come across to UK late September or early October which should be perfect for the autumn colours there.

Do you remember the special green and grey cards you made up many years ago ? Are you using these to WB the camera or are you using grass?



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 04:46 23rd Post
jk wrote:
What was the replacement filter that was fitted to the D200 ?

The RAW rendering looks different to the images from my D70 (720nm filter fitted) which seems to produce a browner result SOOC.

Was it 720, 660, 590 nm or some other?

It was supposed to be 720 as is my Fuji.

Of course it depends on the custom wb you set.

But it's my recollection that the temperature can't go any lower than 2000 in ACR ...so all IR shots are 2000. It's only the tint that varies !

I found all my D70 were -80ish tint whereas the D200 are-64ish.

I've never tried it but arguably you don't need ANY wb in camera if you shoot IR in raw. Just use a preset in ACR to 2000/-80.



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Posted by Robert: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 04:46 24th Post
This isn't a Lifepixel filter (I don't think). There are sources in Europe, Schott? Glass for one, where I think my 'Venus' UV band pass filter was sourced.

Lifepixel started to make other wavelength filters available but I am not aware of a 'better' 720nm filter unless they widened the pass band, but that might not be an improvement?

Just checked, David at ACS supplies 720 and 830nm filters but can supply others to order. The 830 images i have seen are way too stark and contrasty for artistic photography (unless of course that is the effect you want), more for forensic use I suspect. I may ask him for a spectrum graph of the ACS 720, just to see what I got but It works well, so in some ways there isn't much point except to guide others in the same direction and from an interest PoV.

This is an interesting site for bandpass charts:

http://rocoes.com.tw/2008e/optical/bandpass.htm

And:

http://rocoes.com.tw/2008e/optical/camfilter.htm

This page may provide a springboard to further information, some understanding of German may be needed! LOL:

http://www.baader-planetarium.de/sektion/s45/canon_astroupgrade-english.htm

Westonbirt sounds great, just let me know when. I really enjoyed the last visit, I have a fresh car now so perhaps the exhaust won't fall off on the way home!!! LOL

Yes I still have the green and grey cards, use the grey occasionally, The D200 is pre set by Eric but as he mentioned, it's all adjustable in processing by setting the WB to 2000 and tint to 80 or thereabouts. My D1 is set from brightly Sunlit grass.

As an aside, I remember from when I first used Bibble 4 the WB seemed to adjust lower than 2000 which seems to be the lower limit in must software/hardware and that was one of the reasons I switched to Bibble for the IR photo processing plus I liked the subtle control of the light shades often found in UV images. I have found now I am getting more proficient with Ps that isn't such an advantage but I did like the way Bibble 4 worked. There is also focus the de-cluttering factor of just using one application, rather than having to learn the finer and complex controls of multiple deep application software.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 05:37 25th Post
OK I am talking part rubbish here ....my memory needed sorting!!!


I have just revisited the 3 generation raw files (D70/D200/Fuji)

The image below shows the difference.

On the left the 'as shot' settings
D70 2000/-85,
D200 2000/-64,
Fuji 2000/-77

Alongside the D200 and the Fuji are their default files adjusted to -85.

In doing this I have rejogged my memory.

Firstly, there is less difference between the D70 and D200 as shot colours than I remembered. The Fuji is clearly a different glass source!

But the reason why I adjusted the D200 back to -85 was NOT to get it closer to the D70 but to null out some of the magenta in the tint. I found the D200 images slighty (doesn't show on screen) more red/magenta

When you try to play with residual colours I found Magenta a messy hue to have present...it makes things greeny when you do any channel mixing (without a lot of manual intervention)

I shifted the hue back to -85 on the D200 because it gave a purer yellow overall cast which was easier to work with ...especially when flipping to the complimentary colour blue! There were less spurious colours creeping in.


My memory was correct with regard to WHAT I did...not WHY!!!!


Robert
Its interesting that ACR is limited to 2000 temperature when you say Bibble allowed less. It seems to me THAT is what is required to null out residual colour on the files...be that magenta or yellow. Of course full or partial desaturation can do that. But having SOME colour there does make creative tinting easer.

How do the D1X raws compare to the D200 and what numbers?


Jonathan
What are you using for p[rocessing the D70 IR shots? If ACR, are the numbers the same 2000/-85?



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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 05:56 26th Post
Thanks Robert and Eric.
That information is very useful.

I need to work out what the Tint slider really does.

Those Fuji images look really delicate, subtle. This is getting more and more tempting but I need to see what is released at Photokina. I will then decide if to convert my XE1 or XPro1. I like the size of the XE1.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 06:05 27th Post
One other point about colour casts.

As you know when taking recent holiday shots with the Fuji I struggled with hotspotting on my available lens.

The Fuji shot shows a hotspot despite my attempt to minimise it with aperture and focal length choice.

If you bang the saturation up to maximum you can more clearly see this central anomaly and more annoyingly, its a blue colour. This anomaly therefore not only introduces an optical flaw but a chromatic shift...which when you start messing with colours can reeeaaally slew the result across the image.

Its also puzzling why the hotspot IS blue? Does this mean the anomaly happens at the sensor rather than in front of the IR filter? Why would it respond differently in colour if it was just internal lens glass reflection????


o.O




I saw this phenomena some time ago and incorporated this knowledge into my hotspot removal sequence.

FYI
KNOWING the hotspots are blue-magemnta I first try to eliminate these colours from the image (hence the desire to shift to a yellower overall tint). Essentially that is nothing more than using hue/sat set to blue and then magenta channels, decreasing saturation AND modifying the lightness to balance some of the exposure difference to the rest of the image. Once that's done I can mask to correct the slight over exposure in the centre of the image.

Only then I can get on with the normal messing about.





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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 07:06 28th Post
jk wrote:
Thanks Robert and Eric.
That information is very useful.

I need to work out what the Tint slider really does.

Those Fuji images look really delicate, subtle. This is getting more and more tempting but I need to see what is released at Photokina. I will then decide if to convert my XE1 or XPro1. I like the size of the XE1.

The tint slider is the green -> magenta

The temperature slider is the blue -> yellow



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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 09:21 29th Post
Getting more what I visualize and want from my IR photos these days.

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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 09:23 30th Post
And then really messing with it.

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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 11:59 31st Post
And then there was Kodak Ektachrome IR.

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Posted by Robert: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 12:29 32nd Post
I have edited the thread title to be more appropriate to the content of this thread for any possible searches in the future.

I had not envisaged the feedback and discussion. It's refreshingly welcome, keep it coming.

Many thanks for the interest.



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Posted by Robert: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 12:31 33rd Post
jk wrote:
And then there was Kodak Ektachrome IR.


Interesting how that process has brought up the boat's name plates correctly as red with white letters...



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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 14:00 34th Post
OK a question. When I Export from Lightroom then I get my image EXIF saved into the JPG image. When I do the same from Photoshop CS6 it always strips the EXIF.

What setting do I need to change in Photoshop CS6 to get it to save the EXIF data to the image?.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 14:11 35th Post
jk wrote:
OK a question. When I Export from Lightroom then I get my image EXIF saved into the JPG image. When I do the same from Photoshop CS6 it always strips the EXIF.

What setting do I need to change in Photoshop CS6 to get it to save the EXIF data to the image?.

Without looking I can't say.... All mine in the gallery have their exif and they were done in photoshop.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 14:39 36th Post
jk wrote:
Getting more what I visualize and want from my IR photos these days.


You seem to have a different result from that filter, Jonathan. Was that a Lifepixel filter conversion (by them or you) ?



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Posted by jk: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 15:30 37th Post
The D70 images of mine that I posted is using some actions I have gathered over the years and modified and developed onwards in an attempt to make my IR processing easier/better.
These images were taken in a D70 with the LifePixel 720nm filter replacing the Nikon HotMirror filter.


The pseudo Ektachrome IR film effect on Robert's shot is something I have been trying to achieve and finally managed it.
I have the XMP for it so it should be reproducible. I will try and make a Photoshop Action over the next week or so.



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Posted by Eric: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 15:42 38th Post
jk wrote:
The D70 images of mine that I posted is using some actions I have gathered over the years and modified and developed onwards in an attempt to make my IR processing easier/better.
These images were taken in a D70 with the LifePixel 720nm filter replacing the Nikon HotMirror filter.


The pseudo Ektachrome IR film effect on Robert's shot is something I have been trying to achieve and finally managed it.
I have the XMP for it so it should be reproducible. I will try and make a Photoshop Action over the next week or so.

Ah ...so the first one isn't directly from the camera?

I thought it showed a colour temperature below 2000 and wondered if your filter was causing it...and how?



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Posted by Robert: Wed Aug 13th, 2014 17:10 39th Post
Eric, it may have been through Bibble 4 which I seem to remember does go below 2000, although I don't think it's calibrated as such... in the same way as ACR is.



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Posted by Eric: Fri Aug 15th, 2014 19:21 40th Post
Robert wrote:
Eric, it may have been through Bibble 4 which I seem to remember does go below 2000, although I don't think it's calibrated as such... in the same way as ACR is.
The whole process of WB calibration against green is really only relevant if you are shooting jpeg or need some help visualising the image on the LCD.

If you shoot on auto wb the image is invariable horribly red. But using an ACR or Bibble preset of c. 2000/-75 brings the image back closer to 'normaility'. I suspect 1500degK would be better, if it is attainable.



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Posted by jk: Sat Aug 16th, 2014 03:35 41st Post
Eric wrote:
Robert wrote:
Eric, it may have been through Bibble 4 which I seem to remember does go below 2000, although I don't think it's calibrated as such... in the same way as ACR is.
The whole process of WB calibration against green is really only relevant if you are shooting jpeg or need some help visualising the image on the LCD.

If you shoot on auto wb the image is invariable horribly red. But using an ACR or Bibble preset of c. 2000/-75 brings the image back closer to 'normaility'. I suspect 1500degK would be better, if it is attainable.

I hadnt realised this until one of your earlier posts. :-)

I also found an article about using the DNG Profile Editor and followed it but it was like everything DNG a heap of DuNG! Adobe have really completely mis-sold DNG to the general public. Fortunately I never bought into their idea. However there are people out there who now shoot in RAW import into Lightroom, convert the RAW into DNG and dump the RAW file. If there is a more stupid workflow then it can only be to delete the DNG as well once you have the jpg.



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Posted by Robert: Sat Aug 16th, 2014 04:09 42nd Post
I have had one A2 print made of the 'Oakdale' image (the boat), after a quick examination I am very pleased with the result, need to get it mounted and framed before I can really assess the image properly.

As for DNG and deleting the NEF, I can only liken that to making prints then burning the negatives. Fine if you only need the prints but madness if you ever want or need to revisit the processing.

I lost all my negatives from my early photography which I had carefully stored, I still have some prints but only poor small ones, if I still had the negatives I would now be in a position to re-photograph them and bring them into the digital age.

You can never know what new technology is around the corner, nor what will happen with proprietary formats. Who knows, Corel, Google or Facebook may buy Photoshop next, then where would we be??? Stuffed. OK that may never happen but it could, or something equally unthinkable. At least with the original NEF format you can always go back to square one.


After loading the image files into Lightroom I fairly ruthlessly 'X' any image which is oof, has issues or is repetitive, then I delete them from the drive. The cost of large hard drives is very low nowadays, there is no need to delete good image files simply to save space.



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Posted by Eric: Sun Aug 17th, 2014 05:55 43rd Post
Had a quick look back and I think the cleanest image from the D200 files is at 1666K / -75Tint



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Posted by jk: Sun Aug 17th, 2014 07:44 44th Post
This discussion has been very insightful and helpful to me.

I have managed to identify that in fact I need to concentrate more on the pseudo-WB in the post processing stage and then the Tint and then the Channel Swapping.
Once all those are correct for the image then you can really mess with the HSL to get whatever IR effects.



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Posted by Robert: Wed Sep 17th, 2014 03:46 45th Post
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Posted by jk: Wed Sep 17th, 2014 05:09 46th Post
Well I am now out of NDA so I can say that i have been testing the new Phase One Capture One Pro version 8 (COP8) software.

It processes IR RAW very nicely and I am very happy with the results I am getting. The process in COP8 is much easier than using Photoshop ACR and actions to swap channels etc.



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Posted by Robert: Wed Sep 17th, 2014 09:35 47th Post
Thanks for posting JK, now I am better used to the channel mixer in Ps I like the it because I use it to adjust colours on differing layers using the channel mixer rather than hue-saturation. It seems to go deeper and get more detail into the unsaturated highlights and the lights, in comparison with the hue-saturation tool.

That was how I applied the colours to the Apples and the sky in the Oakdale image.

I will download the software and try it, but not just yet, I have enough on my plate right now.

http://www.phaseone.com/en/Imaging-Software/Capture-One.aspx

I still miss Bibble, I felt it allowed more subtle control of the whites than Ps.



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Posted by Robert: Thu Oct 9th, 2014 17:35 48th Post
When I called on my buddy yesterday to tell him I didn't want the D3 right now, he offered me a tempter!

He went into the loft and produced a box of 'older' lenses mainly film lenses. Without itemising them all, I picked out two which particularly fancied, a Nikkor 28mm f2 and a Nikkor 85mm f2.

The 28mm f2 has a close focus of 250mm which is nice, with CRC (close focus correction). It seems like a very nice lens, according to Bj¸rn it may be a very good IR lens. I need to try it on the D200 IR.

Not so sure about the 85mm f2, looking at the test images it seems to have a colour cast. Thinking back I seem to remeber the w/b being adjusted at that point, but it wasn't reset after that so remained for the 28-70mm test images which seem OK...

I also tried a 'broken' Nikkor zoom 28-70 AFS, which cosmetically could be new but only focuses by hand.

This is a heavily cropped test image taken from about 18inches in very poor lighting, one central 'economy' ceiling light in late afternoon.

D3, Nikkor 28mm f2.0 @ f2 1/100Sec ISO1000

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Posted by Robert: Thu Oct 9th, 2014 17:38 49th Post
This image, also heavily cropped was taken with the Nikkor 85 f2. I feel it seems to have a cast. Unfortunately they were all taken in JPEG so there is reduced scope for adjustments.

These images are all 'As shot', straight from the card into Lightroom, then a selective screenshot.

D3, Nikkor 85mm f2.0 @ f4.0 1/50Sec ISO1000

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Posted by Robert: Thu Oct 9th, 2014 17:46 50th Post
D3, Nikkor 28-70 mm f2.8 @ 70mm, f3.2 1/40 Sec ISO1000

This seems a nicely balanced colour probably very close to reality, same w/b settings as the above image.

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Posted by jk: Fri Oct 10th, 2014 02:40 51st Post
The WB on the D3 works pretty flawlessly for me. If I use anything other than Auto in natural light or Flash in the studio, even then I can leave it on Auto and then there is a 'blue moon'!



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Posted by Robert: Fri Oct 10th, 2014 03:15 52nd Post
Had it been my camera JK, that is what the setting would have been and saved to NEF, possibly saving a JPG to a second card? Although I am yet to be convinced about that methodology. Increases complexity and why would I need duplication? I have never lost an image from a card yet. (Kiss of death there!).



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