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Your Weekly Blog / Re: November 2025
« Last post by Fons Baerken on Today at 16:28:04 »November 26
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Zf Voigtländer 40mm f/1.2
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Zf Voigtländer 40mm f/1.2
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Removing the colour filters reduces light loss, but that does not change dynamic range, because dynamic range is full well capacity minus the noise floor = dark noise plus read noise. If the highlights are not clipped, you can use the light not being lost to the colour filters to increase exposure, and then you get less noise in the shadows just above black. But you could do the same thing by using a larger aperture or a slower shutter speed. Conversely, if the highlights are already clipped, and you care about that, you have to reduce aperture or use a faster shutter speed to compensate for the extra light and you don't get the reduced shadow noise. So the conditions under which the extra light is useful are limited.
The increase in resolution with a monochrome sensor is small.
One reason is that the Bayer process is the process of human vision, and our brains use luminance for detail and add a rather crude colour map on top of that. If you look at the limiting resolutions (MTF50) measured by target reproduction photography and compare them to the Nyquist limit that is the maximum benefit you can get, and with current equipment it is remarkably small. Then there is the fact that ink jet printers are limited to 260 or 300 dpi = 10 or 12 per mm, so the most they can print is 5-6 lp/mm. If that is achievable with a Bayer sensor and a good lens you don't get any benefit of a monochrome sensor's higher resolution in the print.
Nature's expressions can be quite poetic. Snow writing belongs there.
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Working incognito again eh Øivind ?
I'm assuming that late November in your normal location would be snow & ice
There's a lovely warm summery feeling to this image
However it felt almost warm/summery at the time a week ago compared to the Alaska I left at the beginning of the month, mostly lingering around -20°C lately. good idea and very well executed