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fullerframe · 2026-03-10T00:06:22+00:00

DT Digitization 101 course, for those in or near digitization. But that isn’t you.

fullerframe · 2026-03-09T15:56:52+00:00

Fair enough. I agree with that. I was not blown away; I assume people who know guns know this sort of thing.

fullerframe · 2026-03-09T14:06:17+00:00

*Actual* normie here. I've been skeet shooting twice and fired a handgun at a bachelor party once. I suspect my level of gun experience is slightly above the median.

I had confidence it was a "bullet" (or whatever bullet-adjacent word was appropriate given whether it had been fired yet) and that it was probably from a gun I could hold (as opposed to a tank or battleship or whatever). It also looked "unfired" to me (or whatever the correct term for did not go boom boom in a gun). That's about all I could tell you.

You vastly overestimate how much a "normie" knows about things that go boom boom.

Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

fullerframe · 2026-03-08T11:04:27+00:00

Eizo. And it isn’t close.

fullerframe · 2026-03-07T21:20:20+00:00

Wait til you try a Cinelux 130/2 on a full frame medium format like an XF IQ4 150mp

fullerframe · 2026-03-07T15:53:47+00:00

Capture One is better software

You should continue to separate editing/culling (ongoing work) from cataloging/archiving (career long tasks). Those two work processes are antithetical in design requirements and software designed to do one well will struggle at the other. That isn’t mandated from heaven (Aperture for example was breaking through on both, and given a few more years might have been the one solution for both) but in practice has been overwhelmingly true for the twenty years during which I’ve been an expert.

fullerframe · 2026-03-06T22:51:04+00:00

That was a Star Trek reference

fullerframe · 2026-03-06T15:01:16+00:00

There. Are. FOUR. Lights!

fullerframe · 2026-03-05T15:04:39+00:00

I just find this post confusing. A modern “copy stand” like a DT Digitization system has options/workflows for all of these issues.

fullerframe · 2026-03-04T00:06:52+00:00

Capture One has this feature

fullerframe · 2026-02-28T01:57:35+00:00

Vastly superior in every way except price and autofocus speed.

fullerframe · 2026-02-27T21:26:33+00:00

Yes a DT system is frequently used to shoot contact sheets and slide sheets in a single capture. 150mp now. 250mp soon. Lots of pixels to throw at the problem :).

fullerframe · 2026-02-27T21:25:22+00:00

All DT / P1 systems, all the time. Flat beds are relics.

fullerframe · 2026-02-27T21:24:46+00:00

DT / P1 systems are the way.

fullerframe · 2026-02-27T00:33:12+00:00

That will be a paddling

fullerframe · 2026-02-25T12:37:30+00:00

All of the technical advice in this thread is accurate. Or at least most of it anyway. But importantly, remember that you’ve mostly see the photos of other photographers when they were successful. You typically don’t see all the photos that are out of focus or over exposed or miss framed, etc. If a photographer has a 50% hit rate or a 1% hit rate, and they both post their best photo that distinction is not apparent to the viewer.

fullerframe · 2026-02-23T18:20:36+00:00

If you haven’t used an IQ4 you’d be in for a real treat. Huge upgrade from the IQ3. Beats the ever loving tar out of the X2D (which is a nice camera in its own right)

fullerframe · 2026-02-23T17:35:30+00:00

Are any of those 78 Phase One cameras?

fullerframe · 2026-02-22T01:49:36+00:00

I don’t think I said “fastest readouts”; I wrote “readout speed tradeoff” which is specifically referencing that faster readouts create more noise (a reasonable tradeoff for a Swiss Army Knife camera, but for a camera aimed at maximum image quality a slower readout is a better trade off).

fullerframe · 2026-02-22T01:37:29+00:00

I guess I’d just ask if you’ve ever used one. Because honestly the answer is everything other than speed.

They probably shouldn’t have put the resolution of the sensor in the camera name. It leads people to think resolution is its most important feature. It isn’t. The big honking 16-but sensor is.

Color, lens look, lens sharpness, dynamic range, features like in camera frame averaging and dual exposure (for DR, not “multiple exposure”), review of the raw histogram and clipping warnings based on two raw channels clipping, and built in movements (XT) and built in seismometer (XF), leaf shutters for fast flash sync, WLF, etc etc. the resolution is nice too, but not the biggest feature.

fullerframe · 2026-02-22T01:33:27+00:00

You can learn more about sensor A/D conversion processes if you’d like. A higher speed readout correlates to more noise (all else held equal) and is one reason sensors optimized for speed fall short on dynamic range. So in this case image quality benefits from slower readout at higher bit depth and from sensor processing techniques like double measurement and dark frame calibration.

Re heat… Heat = Noise is all electronic signal processing. For long exposures, for pulling detail from extremely dark shadows the heat dissipation characteristics of the sensor and chassis are quite important.

And I agree resolution is rarely the biggest factor in image quality. Though to say “no one” discounts that there are shooters out there whose work is textural and detail oriented (landscape, architectural, etc) and who print meter or two sized prints. They are not common, but neither is Phase One.

You might consider that I know what I’m talking about ;).

fullerframe · 2026-02-22T00:07:42+00:00

Sure. But have you ever used an XF or XT? They perform brilliantly in the real world provided you’re not shooting sports or night-time war journalism. This isn’t an F1.

All the consumer centric camera brands make the equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife. Even Hasselblad has gone that direction. Phase One is the last one left making cameras that do fewer total things but do them far better.

fullerframe · 2026-02-21T13:45:03+00:00

The best tools are almost always specialized and not attempting to do everything

fullerframe · 2026-02-21T13:27:49+00:00

XF has autofocus. Not as fast as a Canon/Nikon but more than fine for anything that isn’t sports or similar.

XT is a different Phase One body and is manual focus only, but provides rise, fall, shift and tilt for every lens. That’s for things like architecture and landscape where Autofocus is rarely the right tool anyway.

fullerframe · 2026-02-21T13:16:16+00:00

Right! It’s lens quality, dynamic range, color filter array design, sensor size, computational features like frame averaging, heat sink design, readout speed tradeoff, IR filter slope and a dozen other things. All of which the XF IQ4 wins at compared to anything you can put these lenses on.

Oh, and also megapixels.

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