Comment by 🐙 norayr
it'll be long to digress but i enjoy shooting film, because of results and process so much, that recently i shoot mostly film or crap cameras. then i apply my luts to the digital photos because i can't look at digital colours. (:
Mar 22 · 7 weeks ago
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back to the topic: i had a compass when i was a kid, it was made for kids, it had phosphorus for scale and an arrow.
i loved it so much i was wearing it always.
today these old soviet compasses are known to be dangerous.
also in soviet military cars, in some of them there were on/off switches, and those would glow in dark and are extremely radioactive with gamma radiation. i saw them. i think they are still in use, those who use them don't know about the dangers.
Fuji's sensors have a different geometry and I find that it makes a difference
🛸 bluesman [OP] · Mar 23 at 00:48:
@norayr I always shoot RAW so I have some latitude in processing. The results are always better and I can match up different cameras. I miss the idea of film but as mentioned, it's expensive. Great stories, BTW.
@stack I've heard a lot of praise for the x-trans sensor. My understanding is that some Fuji cameras have bayer these days. I really want a Fuji but the days of impulsive camera shopping are over for me it seems.
🛸 bluesman [OP] · Mar 23 at 00:54:
The most interesting digital camera I ever owned was the Sigma DP2 Merril (the one with the 28mm equivalent lens). Its sensor captured three colors per pixel. No filter. Speed and battery life were crap but the results were truly unique. It's one of those cameras I regret selling.
Fuji has a setting that lets you save both raw and an emulsion of your choice, which is the best of all worlds. I always shoot that way, although I have yet to do anything with the raw files (other than figuring out how to use rawtherapy or whatever).
The film presets are pretty good.
The sigma sensors were always very interesting to me.
Fuji's sensors have a different geometry and I find that it makes a difference
@stack apparently the x-trans sensor geometry is to decrease the amount of moiré pattern. other cameras mostly use an anti moiré filter that basiclly spoils the image.
but their colour profiles are very cleverly designed by people who understand human psycho-physiological perception and art and film chemistry process.
so for me the only digitals i recommend are fujis, and then one doesn't even need to shoot raw, well i wouldn't because i can't apply such a colour lookup table out of camera.
or if i shoot raw i can applly different colour profiles to the same image in camera.
@norayr, right on, brother! Fuji forever.
There is software out there that pulls out raw Fuji data, although I haven't needed it yet.
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