#pixel-peeping

Zu den netten und manchmal lästigen Aufgaben eines Fotografen gehört es, seine Ausrüstung zu testen. Ist noch alles in Ordnung? Muss das Gerät zum CLA („Clean, Lubricate, Adjust“)? Können Abläufe verbessert werden? Entspricht das Ergebnis den Erwartungen oder müssen bessere Werkzeuge beschafft werden? Ich hatte mich lange Zeit mit dem Gedanken beschäftigt, eine Plaubel Makina 67 zu kaufen, eine…

The Pixel Peeping Has Gone Too Far.

I was just reading the article The Reality Behind Nikon Z Banding Issues by Spencer Cox on PhotographyLife.com. I immediately went “What the f@3K?”

So here’s the story. YouTube Pixel Peepers (YPPers, I think I should trademark that) underexpose their images by six stops and then bring up the exposure slider in post-processing until shadow noise starts showing up. And guess what, there’s a tiny…

On Photography, Sensor Size and Pixel Peeping

These days we see a lot of people on blogs and social networks talking about why their camera is best and why such other system is bad or that sensor is too small, etc ,etc. What these all invariably forget is that every photographer has different needs, different priorities, different values, different budgets. From my point of view, there is no best camera or best brand or best photographic…