[Leica] How to get an M8 for $3200...

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 8:00 AM -0700 7/22/08, Frank Filippone wrote:
>I think you are wrong, Frank.....  I think this is precisely what the SW is
>doing......  Sharpening, blending, color balance, adding pixels, whatever
>else.....  which can give a more pleasing image.
>
>None of these pixels is real in the image as the optical rays hit the
>sensor.  They are "deduced" or "constructed" or "created".
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net


Seems to be a mistep in logic here... The camera and software do not 
reveal data (detail, tonal info, whatever) that didn't get recorded 
by the chip. It can take the data that the chip provides and massage 
it til the cows come home, but no new data will be created, at best 
only extrapolated data. Whether that data is more pleasing or not is 
beside the point. If the software is lucky the new data might 
actually bear some resemblance to reality or to data that might have 
been captured by a better chip, but more likely it has nothing to do 
with reality; it is a figment of the software designer's imagination.

It's like taking a photograph and, using a paintbrush, painting 
something more to your liking over it. Maybe more pleasing, but 
further from the reality that a good chip can capture.

In a crude analogy, it's somewhat like brain surgery. We can 'fix' 
things, and make the result more pleasing, but we can't increase 
brain function in any real way.





>
>Clearly the software cannot reveal data which does not
>exist
>
>
>Frank



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