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Comment by Tyr posted on Real or Fake? at 17/07/2007 - 08:29
Spoilers below, copy and paste or change font size, quote me or something to read it (don't repost it as someone may want to read the thread before trying). I've strung it all together so you can't tell how many of each there are, points vary with each so there could be less of one than the other
Fakes:
The BMW has a flat background and the tiles in the foreground look like they have parallax applied. The Mug shows the spoon reflected on it is a less than real way, it is a bit too perfect. The 'froth' on the top is also a flat texture. The diamonds have flat colouration and the refraction is not correct. Whisks shadows are all wrong and the textures are bland. Monkeys, I won't even comment on how anyone could possibly confuse hat for a photo
Real:
Corkscrew has a lovely flash shadow, deep texture. Nut and Bolt have great DoF and shadow. The rover, just look at the numberplate and the decorative bit above, the reflections are 'burnt' naturally. Glass thingamajig, well nice deep texture and one which could easily fool. Peppers, colour looks wrong and flat but the detail and texture on the stalks shows they are real. DoF is also helps a bit.
Bonus 4 out of 4 correct
Fake:
The marbles and steel tube reflections look wrong. The guy in armour looks very fake indeed, hair, skin, forehead, eyes, list goes on...
Real:
Wooden lizard, imperfection on the foot and nice studio lighting, look at the shadows. Glass of water, movement, texture, bubbles, detail, lighting.
Comment by Tyr posted on Real or Fake? at 26/06/2007 - 11:28
Poor little Boris
My partner brought up some tea for herself to settle down in bed with a book. She turned the halogen lamp next to the bed on and the spider started dancing (they get hot fast, just in case you didn't know). It quickly spun thread to escape. This fell apart and off the lamp splashing the spider right into the boiling hot cup of tea. Needless to say it was dead and my partner a little upset for the spider and loss of her tea.
Comment by Tyr posted on Welcome Gerri to the k10 club. at 29/06/2007 - 15:09
Argh! A spider is running all over my laptop Hope it doesn't go in the fans and cooling as that could seriously hamper it's efficiency!
Cooked spider anyone?
Comment by Tyr posted on Welcome Gerri to the k10 club. at 28/06/2007 - 15:14
Cooked spider anyone?
Comment by Tyr posted on Welcome Gerri to the k10 club. at 28/06/2007 - 14:45
It's nice to have a partner who likes the same gadgets that you do!
Other problem Is I need a fast lens and a macro which would come up to the same as a second body
At least after a second body she'd understand LBA and contribute a lot more
Comment by Tyr posted on Welcome Gerri to the k10 club. at 26/06/2007 - 11:45
that's so sharp, it should come with a built-in hot shaving cream dispensor.
Comment by Tyr posted on Oh dear... at 26/06/2007 - 13:18
Shame about the soft JPEGs, though. Other than that, it's a pretty good camera.
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Pentax Real Imaging Engine Ultra Sharp, sharpens all your images beyond Cannon and Nikon's over sharp standards if you chooce that setting, here is an example:
100% crops for pixel peeping/measurebating.
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Comment by Tyr posted on Oh dear... at 26/06/2007 - 11:52
Now just look at dpreview:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1036&thread=23762527
Very bad PS job on a lot of it, could have been much better. Really don't like the Nikon grip in green.
Comment by Tyr posted on Oh dear... at 25/06/2007 - 14:37
I'm not quite sure what you are asking really...
Comment by Tyr posted on Macro question.. at 25/06/2007 - 15:46


Monkeys, I won't even comment on how anyone could possibly confuse hat for a photo
at least I knew it wasn't a hat
5/10
Pete