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"Mark B." wrote:
Sigma doesn't dominate *any* market. They dominate the market for cameras and lenses that use the Sigma lens mount. grin -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com |
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Preddy wrote: Sandy, in terms of quality Sigma is dominant right now, no other pro DSLR is even close. Certainly not the ancient 1Ds, with its barebones electronic side, small sensor pitch, and blurry old 90's vintage 0.35 micron CMOS. Certainly not the moire-machine 14n. Not only is Sigma dominant, there's literally no competition in the pro class. Sigma is outclassing medium format film, no one else is halfway to 35mm in full color performance. The only thing dominant about Sigma is their ability to produce mediocre equipment which create mediocre images. |
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Mark Roberts wrote in news:y7kGc.23358$MT5.2373
@nwrdny01.gnilink.net: Sigma doesn't dominate *any* market. They dominate the market for cameras and lenses that use the Sigma lens mount. grin They also dominate the market using Foveon sensors. /Roland |
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Leonard wrote:
http://www.pbase.com/image/30968764/original correction: http://www.pbase.com/image/31010266/original I redid the rotation and crop down to 3MP with jpegtran (lossless) so as to show more closely the actual camera output. The main difference is the file size is quite a bit smaller. - Len |
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Leonard writes:
The picture of the SD9 contains a useful illustration of why blur filters should be used even when sampling with full colour at each location. An antialiasing filter shouldn't be called a "blur filter" because it doesn't simply blur the image. The ones made from birefringent material create a controlled multiple image that eliminates information at the Nyquist frequency while maintaining good contrast up to about 70% of that limit. A filter that simply blurred a point into a round disc or a Gaussian shape would lose much more image information below the Nyquist limit if it was sized to produce reasonable attenuation at the Nyquist frequency. In filtering terms, the anti-aliasing filter provides a sharper cutoff than any simply blurring filter. Foveon's technical reports call an antialiasing filter a "blur filter" because they don't want to understand the difference, and don't acknowledge that avoiding aliasing is a good thing. "George" calls it that too, probably for the same reason. And you *can* use blur to provide anti-aliasing, it just isn't what cameras with AA filters do. Dave |
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"George Preddy" wrote in message om... 3MP Bayer image (0.75 Foveon MPs) http://www.pbase.com/image/30338213/original Only a moron (if the shoe fits, Preddy...) would try to pass this off as a typical 3MP bayer image. My 3 year-old Oly C-3040 takes incredible pictures. This one looks like it was taken at about ASA/ISO 1600 with very, very little light and a super-long exposure. Foveon is interesting technology but it's low light performance leaves much to be desired, which is only one reason why www.dpreview.com could only give either Sigma DSLR a "Recommended" rating instead of the coveted "Highly Recommended" like the D70, Digital Rebel, and Pentax *ist D all received (and even the Oly 8080, the successor to my C-3040). |
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