Deon Reynolds

Fascinating. Thank you for the education! I always shoot in RAW but had no idea what happens under the hood, I call it FM (F-ing Magic).

I did not know digital cameras, do not have a color gamut! I assumed so since I set the color space on my digital cameras to Adobe RGB (1998), color mixing makes total sense. Thank you for clarifying that! The calibrated apple monitor I'm using can produce 100% of the Adobe RGB (1998) gamut, that is why I purchased it. I calibrate my scanner using 4 different IT8 targets (Reflective/Transparent-Kodak/Fuji). After I did this I was blown away by all the subtle colors that came though. I'm using an Epson P6000 printer (arrived last month after a four month backorder), I do not calibrate it, I let photoshop control the color. I do put as much as posable to ProPhoto Color since it has a slightly larger gamut than Adobe RGB (1998). I'd rather dumb it down for what ever use the image ends up. Everyone sees color a little bit differently than the next person, but almost everyone can see SOOO many more colors than even the biggest color gamut.

None of these were stolen, they quit working or were of such low quality I quit using it. I put one of the broken cameras (firmly attached) down at our gate, which is a quarter mile away from the house. Hoping to make people think before driving in. Our closest neighbour is a 90 year old retired police officer, he has lived here for 30 years, he says there has only been one crime on the road since he has lived here, people don't lock their houses and the keys are in the ignition...

Those are great, now that's the kind of quality I'm looking for. Thank you! I'm not interested in spending much on this kind of camera, as I don't need DSLR quality. The place we purchased is between two wildlife refuges to the north and south, BLM, then wilderness borders our property to the east and the Rio Grande runs through the neighbors property to the west. The last place we lived was way more remote, but this place has so much more wildlife. Very interested in what ventures through...

Mirrorless is more compact and lighter in weight, but I'm not switching to a mirrorless because I'm too invested in EF prime lenses. Plus I don't see an image quality or megapixel increase to warrant such a move. I'm shooting with Canon 5Dsr's, I own four of Canon's newest TS-E lenses (tilt-shift) and they are not going to make them anymore. I understand there is an adapter for EF to RF, but why? You're right back to the same size and weight of a DSLR. Canon and Nikon should be able to make better lenses since there is no mirror to get in the way (especially wide). But, so far I'm not seeing anything more than a smaller lens with the same optics inside. It's as if these companies are saying goodbye to the professional market to satisfy the Prosumer market. I get it, there are way more prosumers than professional photographers out there, so they follow the money.

Sorry, The first two cameras were JOH M1's 24Mp 1080p video water proof 50 foot IR flash 50 foot trigger. The first one lasted six months and quit, they sent me another one under warranty. It lasted two uses, don't want another one. The third one was a Lanmodo TC4K is 48 Mp water proof 100 foot IF flash and 100 foot trigger. All of these cameras are pure garbage! 48Mp is a joke, I've seen better images from a 4Mp camera. These all had 4 or 5 stare ratings on Amazon...

Yes, it's a small usually camouflaged camera you strap to a tree or what ever.

I have purchased several wildlife cams the first one lasted six months but the quality was very poor. Second camera lasted two uses, third camera (48 MP) has such low image quality I simply can't use it. One thing I have found with wildlife / trail cameras is that they all lie about Mega Pixel size. I purchased two that say on the box 24Mp but when you read the fine print in the instruction manual it says it's an 8Mp sensor interpolated to 24Mp. And, literally I turned the Mp down to 8 and there is no difference at 24Mp, just a bigger file size. Anyone have any recommendations of a quality wildlife camera? I don't need or even want big files, lens quality would be helpful. Thanks, Deon

Thank you! Everybody’s input has been very helpful. I can steer from here… I come from old school color management (I think that’s why separate all the colors/channels into layers in photoshop the way I do), so this is helpful to me. While in college I worked at a camera store, I was hired by my (now) wife. We most likely were flirting too much, so the boss took me over to his other business and put me to work making color separations for his small print shop. I was tasked with making separations using a 40x40 LogE camera. I didn’t make too many full color separations, as his biggest client was the USGS and my job was making negatives for each of the color plates for quadrangle maps, that was 40 years ago and I didn’t work there more than a couple of years, everything’s so different, but not really…

Exactly! What is maximum black and why do you even need it? I think of photography as an art form, open to personal interpretations of the creator, not a math problem.

Thank you!

Thank you! I had not heard of this plug in I will check it out.

Yes, I whole hardly agree. For color work I now only shoot digital. However I have 40,000 color transparencies and I had started to shoot color negative film about five years ago and only have a few hundred frames I want to scan.