At the nexus of the Floridian cultural void, there is a beauty to the sun-set drenched, air-conditioned culture of gated communities and the seedy swamp of degraded America. The color palette that paints over much of that dream (or nightmare) is a pastel rich mix of vibrant and clashing tones. Just as the depressed trailer parks and opulent bungalows rub against each other to … [Read more...]
HR-1 SuperChroma
We're increasingly demanding more and more demands from our cameras. We already have 14 steps of dynamic range, very low noise at 3200 ISO, an extremely fast autofocus and compact lightweight bodies, but… what about color? Manufacturers don’t say anything remarkable about the color that is captured and how their cameras reproduce it, beyond the fact that they can produce … [Read more...]
Phase One TriChromatic Sensor Explained
Pushing The Envelope Phase One is a unique company as they continually have a tendency to achieve what others say can’t be done. They also take something that is already the leader of the pack and find a way to make it even better. Years ago back in the CCD sensor days Phase One was purchasing their sensors from Kodak. At the time Phase One released a 39 mp back called the … [Read more...]
Expanded Neutrals Testing
Several posts in the LULA Forum and further thinking about the importance of the grayscale to overall image quality sparked my interest in developing an expanded approach (based on what I have been doing heretofore) for testing the accuracy and neutrality of grayscale tonal rendition as well as the depth of tonal separation for rendering B&W shadow detail. As I shall be … [Read more...]
Observing and Managing Color: Dealing with Color Vision Anomalies
The camera versus the human eye Superficially, the human eye appears to be similar to a camera. Here looks certainly deceive because, other than a few shared components, the two differ both in operation and in purpose. Consider first the camera. A camera records a scene all at once and in an instant. What is actually recorded is a projection of the scene by a rectilinear … [Read more...]
