Infrared test The Samsung Pro815 is a new digital camera with a huge 28 to 420mm zoom range and lots to like. Full review will be posted very soon. Its IR sensitivity is adequate, making this a decent camera for infrared photography. The raw IR image from the camera. The slight ghosting is from holding …
Infrared test The Olympus SP-500UZ is a compact digital camera with good specifications. A full review will be posting in a few days. IR sensitivity is pretty good and noise is reasonably low. Here is a raw IR image from the camera. Exposure is 1/2 second at f2.8and 400ISO And here is another. This image …
Infrared test. The Olympus E-500 is a digital SLR. Shooting in JPEG or TIFF, its IR sensitivity seems to be quite low compared to many other cameras, SLRs and fixed-lens. However this is misleading. Above is the raw camera output. Exposure was 1/15 second at f5.6. A straight greyscale conversion and some levels work gives …
Infrared test The Kodak P880 is a new SLR-like digital camera with good specifications. The full review will be posted in a few days. It demonstrates reasonable IR sensitivity. Exposure times on the images here were 1/2 second at f3.6 The raw infrared image from the camera. And another one. A straight grayscale conversion offers …
Infrared test. The Fuji S5600 sensitivity to IR does not appear to be very good at all. The image below was taken with maximum extra exposure compensation dialled in: The JPEG straight from the camera, exposure 1/4second at f3.2. After the use of Levels. In fact the issue with the 5600 seems to be both …
Infrared test. The Canon G6 is a lovely camera in normal use. As you will see, its IR performance is also excellent, with the advantage over an SLR that, being a ‘rangefinder’ camera, you can still use the optical viewfinder to compose your shots with the IR filter on the lens. Shot in RAW mode, …
Konica Minolta is to shutup shop in the camera area and transfer appropriate assets to Sony. In a not unexpected move, Konica Minolta is getting out of the camera business and transferring the appropriate assets to Sony, who are expected to go ahead with plans to develop digital cameras using the Minolta lensmount. The only …
Infrared test. The Nikon D70s digital camera is a truly lovely dSLR to work with and offers 6MP performance with plenty of features to appeal to the dSLR purchaser. Its IR performance is very good, with fast exposure times, the shots here being taken at 1/30 second at f3.5 (and other shutter speed/aperture combinations) and …
A new research development offers the potential to re-focus a photograph after it has been taken and provide a use for the higher and higher pixel resolution that sensors are capable of. Researchers at Stanford University have developed a way to refocus photographs after they have been taken. The technique involves placing a special filter …
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Samsung’s first digital camera really aimed at serious photographers packs a lot into the package and shows that Samsung is a company to watch, yet again. Two things signal Samsung’s seriousness about the photography market. One is the recent announcement of the partnership of Samsung with Pentax to develop digital SLRs. This givens Samsung access …
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