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Posted by Richard Crowley on 07/03/06 12:06
"Toby" <zdftokyo@gool.com> wrote in message
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> "PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Toby" <kymarto123@ybb.ne.jpp> wrote in message
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>>>> "Martin Heffels" <youwishyouwouldknow@nottellinya.com> wrote in
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>>>>> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:17:40 GMT, "PTravel"
>>>>> <ptravel@travelersvideo.com>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>I was thinking more in line with the video equivalent of an audio
>>>>>>compander -- something that can take the limited range that's
>>>>>>available and
>>>>>>expand it. For example, if Na lights put out light limited to
>>>>>>240-245
>>>>>>angstroms (I'm just making up numbers here), something that would
>>>>>>extrapolate on the video so that the lower range fell closer to
>>>>>>red and the
>>>>>>upper range closer to blue would provide a more varied, albeit
>>>>>>false,
>>>>>>coloration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hmmm. Have I just invented a new filter?
>>>>>
>>>>> Want to have Ira Tiffen's e-mail address? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> You could with some clever mathematics expand the range and fill
>>>>> in the gap
>>>>> on your computer,
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>>>> That's exactly my thought.
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>>> To what end? Who would want such a thing? Besides, you would end up
>>> with a horrible posterization effect. Imagine trying to recreate 16
>>> bit color from 4 bit color information...
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>> I've never understand a question like this.
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>> I would want something like this. To my own end. Does this bother
>> you?
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> Not at all, but I'm pointing out that if you want it you'll probably
> have to develop it yourself, unless you are a particulary smooth
> talker.
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>> As for posterization, I don't think so.
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> Well, yes indeed. You need to create levels where none exist. I
> suppose you could do some fancy interpolation to blur the edges, but
> you are still going to have to create something out of nothing, so to
> speak. You are talking about taking minute chroma differences and
> stretching them across the RGB plane, so to speak. Where are you going
> to get all those extra gradations?
>
> I watched your video (by the way, you can get a small bubble level as
> a keychain. Don't get a round one - you only want to check horizontal,
> not vertical, when you mount it on a camera). You have lots of mixed
> light there. What do you plan to do when you have incandescent at
> 2700K and fluorescent at anywhere between 3200-4700K? What happens to
> those colors when you expand your sodium (non) spectrum?
>
> I don't really mean to rain on your parade, but it's not so simple as
> you seem to think.
>
> Toby
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