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06-AUG-2006

cockenzie2.jpg

Before any smart*sses say 'duh, it's a bit soft', two points - first, this uses zero sharpening and no post-processing, as required by Alamy.com, the picture library I work through. Secondly, you may think this just looks like another file, but it's 50.2 megabytes of image, equal to a 17 megapixel DSLR, bigger than the image from a Canon 1DS Mk II, exported directly from the raw .ARW file of the Sony A100 using the scaling up function present in Adobe Camera Raw 3.4 when used with Photoshop CS2 (this function is disabled with Elements 4.0). Where's the sensor blooming due to highlight overflow? Where is the colour fringeing from the 20-year-old, $100 s/h 'beercan' 70-210mm f4 lens used at a moderate f8? No lens/colour fringe correction was used in ACR. Noise reduction was set to luminance 10, colour 50. All settings for exposure, brightness etc were on AUTO and Colour Saturation was set to +10. The image is an ADOBE RGB file, not sRGB, so to view the colours correctly you must download and open it in a colour managed application. It will look slightly soft, flat and yellowish if viewed on an sRGB-only system like many PCs.

Sony DSLR-A100
1/640s f/8.0 at 75.0mm iso100 full exif

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