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Comment on Creating Timelapse Videos – Tutorial by Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:16:08 +0000

Sure, CHDK is a workaround that some people use. Some people don’t want to hack their firmware though and some don’t want to do it while the warranty is still in effect. There is a CHDK hack for some Canon DSLRs as well but I’m not sure if it includes this capability.

Comment on Creating Timelapse Videos – Tutorial by Avi

Avi — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:50 +0000

FYI almost any Canon P.S. camera can be used for this by installing CHDK.

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt IV – Artizen HDR by Artizen Developer

Artizen Developer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:43:50 +0000

Hello Robert, i am from SCI and i just read your review. I would first like to say that although there were many critical factors to it, i found it extremely enlightening and very helpful. I have printed it off cause i don’t want to forget a single thing and am using it to highlight all the different areas where we went wrong. We have addressed several of them so far as we are working on version 2.9 and i was wondering if i could recruit you to give us feedback as you have some excellent points. Please email us at the email provided if you would be interested.

Thank you again.

Comment on Selecting A Printing Surface by Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:45:02 +0000

Thanks Adam. Glad you found it helpful.

Comment on Selecting A Printing Surface by Adam L

Adam L — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:18:19 +0000

These are just they type of recommendation I was searching for, thank you!

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt I – Photoshop CS5 Extended by Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:35:45 +0000

Hi Gerd. OK, glad we’re on the same page now. I didn’t really mean to seem like I was lecturing. Just trying to explain. Essentially, tonemapping is just a fancy form of editing. You’re right that it uses different terminology and different controls.

Regards
Bob

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt I – Photoshop CS5 Extended by Gerd

Gerd — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:22:56 +0000

Hi Bob.

Thank you very much for clarifying.

What you wrote was some kind of lecturing me with things I already knew. But I can see now that my misunderstanding was just a matter of wording, and the mysterious “dropping to 16 bit” (at least as done in the funny “test” which I didn’t have to execute) emerged from its cocoon and turned out to be the replacement of the usual sophisticated, flexible, and mighty tone mapping operators with a crude surrogate which does not handle local contrasts and has much less functionality for control of output. It turned out to be the adjusting of global exposure and gamma, thereby reducing the brightness range and transforming the linear HDR image into a gamma corrected LDR one.

If this procedure should be called tonemapping or not, doesn’t really matter.

Thanks once more and best regards,
Gerd

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt II – Photomatix Pro by rf-photography.ca » HDR Software Review Pt VI – Photomatix Pro 4 Preview

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:56:33 +0000

[...] Part II of this review series discussed the current version of Photomatix. As I noted there, it’s a terrific piece of software and, until PS CS5 HDR Pro was introduced, has been arguably the ‘gold standard’ of HDR software apps. With the introduction of the new features in CS5 HDR Pro, there’s (arguably) a bit of a tussle for that title of ‘gold standard’. Does any of that change with what’s coming in the new version of Photomatix? Let’s take a look. [...]

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt V – SNS-HDR Pro by Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:06:23 +0000

Sebastian,

Thanks very much for reading and adding that clarification. Thanks as well for the additional comments you sent me via email.

Regards
Bob Fisher

Comment on HDR Software Review Pt V – SNS-HDR Pro by Sebastian Nibisz

Sebastian Nibisz — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:37:49 +0000

The real HDR image you opened has low saturation as you said. The reason for this may be that the HDR file may be too dark. You can try loading the HDR image into Photoshop and checking the brightness with the Exposure slider in the 32 bit Preview Options. If the image is very dark, you can lighten it, resave it as a 32 bit image then try opening it again in SNS. Don’t worry if parts the image in Photoshop appear overexposed.

Regards,
Sebastian Nibisz