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Off Balance

In this article we confirm quantitatively that getting the White Point, hence the White Balance, right is essential to obtaining natural tones out of our captures.  How quickly do colors degrade if the estimated Correlated Color Temperature is off?

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Sub Bit Signal

My camera has a 14-bit ADC.  Can it accurately record information lower than 14 stops below full scale? Can it store sub-LSB signals in the raw data?

With a well designed sensor the answer, unsurprisingly if you’ve followed the last few posts, is yes it can.  The key to being able to capture such tiny visual information in the raw data is a well behaved imaging system with a properly dithered ADCContinue reading Sub Bit Signal