> On Mar 22, 2023, at 10:17 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 08:13:54AM +0200, Alan C wrote: >> When I see 'phone shots like that, I wonder why we bother with cameras. > > Quite. > > As I mentioned, I was interested to compare modern technology to > what I was able to do twenty+ years ago. > > I managed to dig out one of the images from 2000. This will have > been taken on my PZ-1p. I'm pretty sure I was using my A* 300/2.8, > probably shooting 1600 ASA Fuji slide film. > > After some playing around in PhotoShop, I came up with this: > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/CopperFamily.jpg> > > (for reference, here's the 2023 phone image again): > > <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/BlackBrothers.jpg> > > I could improve the old image some more by smoothing out the blue > speckles in the darkest parts, and losing a few unwanted highlights, > but it doesn't look too bad. The phone image is better, though. > (And, in all fairness, the stage lighting is much better in 2023).
Those blue speckles puzzle me, because they look like the noise I got with my K-20 in low light situations. I’m not sure how you got them off of a slide. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
