May 23
See below for an intial shot with the new Canon G9 (you can tell I didn’t want to go far for my testing). I also processed the photo with the new Adobe Lightroom 2 Beta, which has the ability to light/darken isolated areas of the photo.
So far, I like the quality of the pictures, but due to its smaller chip size, it does get noisy faster than other digital SLRs at high ISOs. It starts appearing at ISO 200 and jumps up after that.
I should have a comprehensive review on the G9 next week.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Ooooooh, look at d’em sexy legs Brian - nice field test on controlling highlights and shadows!
Just kidding…I’ve been thinking about a P&S to supplement the SLR unit, but would like to have 2 SLR’s (primary and a backup) before adding a P&S to the mix…good preliminary thoughts here though about the noise - will keep that in mind.
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thanks Jason! It was a bit of an odd shot, but just as you mentioned, I posted it because I liked the range of shadow and highlight the G9 was able to capture. That, and the fact that all the other pictures were of my kids standing in our living room giving goofy smiles.
May 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am
At least you get smiles - when my wife sees a lens pointing at her, all I see is a blur or a few choice digits (usually just one) in the photo…
May 26th, 2008 at 8:43 am
i saw your post re: exporting from lightroom and the droplet for sharpening. have you used this for your blog photos? i am having trouble with color. it seems like if i send it through photoshop after exporting as sRGB, photoshop is unhappy and the photo comes out very grey. any suggestions?
May 27th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Hi Dana - I would actually recommend porting to PS from LR as a TIFF in ProPhoto mode (which is native to LR). Once in PS, from there make any final clones, layers, and other app specific adjustments needed before final gamut compression to jpg. (The final two things I do are sharpen, then output to sRGB jpg when processing for the web.)
May 28th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Great suggestion Jason, thanks! I also replied back to Dana in e-mail and suggested a similar approach (exporting from Lightroom in something other than sRGB and then allowing Photoshop to do the convesrion at the end).
Dana, hopefully that does the trick. Also, I just realized you’re from Boulder. I live down in Highlands Ranch! I’m loving the Colorado weather.