Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tangentially related to some of the M8 firmware questions, but mostly inspired by some of the casual conversations about denoisification software, fractalification and such, i am very curious as to how good this technology really is. i am especially interested in how technology can improve mediocre lenses and especially sensor noise. as a real-world test, i have an image which pleases me on a sentimental level, that of my daughter and cat "boy-B" it was taken with a phenomenally excreble camera, the one in my sidekick 3, whose greatest photographic feature was its propinquity. the image quality is atrotious-- almost Niepcean in decreptitude. however, underneath a foggy veil of multicolored noise, there exists rudimentary contrast and a hint of sharpness from which i would think it theoretically possible to extract a snapshot of something approaching 126 film quality. i'd love to see if any of our resident experts might demonstrate what can be done with such an extreme example of poor digital imaging. Scaled-down: "Kitty and Boy-B" http://www.shinozuka.org/IMG00159-600pix.JPG the full image: "Kitty and Boy-B" http://www.shinozuka.org/IMG00159.JPG thanks! -rei -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey