The Coffee House

[Frank F.]

Sometimes I am bold and only take my little Fuji X100T to shoot an event. Now I discovered that my favourite RAW converter for Fuji, Photo Ninja, is a source of excellent black & white conversions, much better than those I can later make starting from the color version in photoshop. An iconic example from a long series:

 

[jcdeboever]

Sometimes I am bold and only take my little Fuji X100T to shoot an event. Now I discovered that my favourite RAW converter for Fuji, Photo Ninja, is a source of excellent black & white conversions, much better than those I can later make starting from the color version in photoshop. An iconic example from a long series:
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Why wouldn't you just convert in camera?

 

[Frank F.]

Sometimes I am bold and only take my little Fuji X100T to shoot an event. Now I discovered that my favourite RAW converter for Fuji, Photo Ninja, is a source of excellent black & white conversions, much better than those I can later make starting from the color version in photoshop. An iconic example from a long series:
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Why wouldn't you just convert in camera?

I might try that. Usually in camera I let it make a CC = Classic Chrome JPEG. Usually I do not touch the JPEG though and go straight to the RAW. Why? Because in my book I get much more details and thus resolution from the RAW in high ISO. It seems to me the internal RAW converter uses too much noise reduction and irons out the high frequency signals = fine details.

 

[jcdeboever]

Sometimes I am bold and only take my little Fuji X100T to shoot an event. Now I discovered that my favourite RAW converter for Fuji, Photo Ninja, is a source of excellent black & white conversions, much better than those I can later make starting from the color version in photoshop. An iconic example from a long series:
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Why wouldn't you just convert in camera?

I might try that. Usually in camera I let it make a CC = Classic Chrome JPEG. Usually I do not touch the JPEG though and go straight to the RAW. Why? Because in my book I get much more details and thus resolution from the RAW in high ISO. It seems to me the internal RAW converter uses too much noise reduction and irons out the high frequency signals = fine details.

I convert almost everything in camera (X-T2, XP2). I made custom presets for my B&W and shoot those in raw, sometimes in jpeg, they turn out great for me, either way. Sports, I use in camera jpegs, custom STD jpeg. Almost everything I shoot goes unedited except for cropping occasionally. I love the Acros simulations and I tweaked 3 different ones for customs and I have them in q menu. In tough lighting conditions, I will shoot the customs in raw and push or pull the conversion based on histogram, all in camera.

 

[Frank F.]

Sometimes I am bold and only take my little Fuji X100T to shoot an event. Now I discovered that my favourite RAW converter for Fuji, Photo Ninja, is a source of excellent black & white conversions, much better than those I can later make starting from the color version in photoshop. An iconic example from a long series:
View attachment 146285

Why wouldn't you just convert in camera?

I might try that. Usually in camera I let it make a CC = Classic Chrome JPEG. Usually I do not touch the JPEG though and go straight to the RAW. Why? Because in my book I get much more details and thus resolution from the RAW in high ISO. It seems to me the internal RAW converter uses too much noise reduction and irons out the high frequency signals = fine details.

I convert almost everything in camera (X-T2, XP2). I made custom presets for my B&W and shoot those in raw, sometimes in jpeg, they turn out great for me, either way. Sports, I use in camera jpegs, custom STD jpeg. Almost everything I shoot goes unedited except for cropping occasionally. I love the Acros simulations and I tweaked 3 different ones for customs and I have them in q menu. In tough lighting conditions, I will shoot the customs in raw and push or pull the conversion based on histogram, all in camera.

Point me to a how-to on making custom presets for the X100T, please. Is it possible to exchange such profiles?

 

[JonA_CT]

Hops for this morning's Double IPA. They keep increasing the potency (oils/acids) in the hops. Noble hops are around 5%. Most modern varietals have been coming in around 12-15%. These are 20%. They are sticky...never had that experience.

 

[Gary A.]

Hops for this morning's Double IPA. They keep increasing the potency (oils/acids) in the hops. Noble hops are around 5%. Most modern varietals have been coming in around 12-15%. These are 20%. They are sticky...never had that experience.

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Bon Appetit.

 

[Gary A.]

Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. It rained twice yesterday, cats & dogs for a short period of time. Rain in summer is very odd for here. The rain did give a big boost in controlling all the wildfires, especially the one(s) in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, many California Firefighters are being recalled from Houston to address the wildfires out here in the west. Recently, Gary found out that California's militia (National Guard), has even sent air assets to Harvey. Numerous rescue helicopters, fixed wing planes and crews have been assisting in the rescues. There has been some excellent photo stories in the Times highlighting California's contribution the emergency. God Bless you people in Houston, you have a long long way to go ... just to dig out ... and another epic journey through reconstruction and recovery.

 

[smoke665]

Hops for this morning's Double IPA.

This has been on the news the last few days. IPAs Are Giving You Man Boobs

Guess it could give you something to do with the hand not holding the glass

 

[Gary A.]

Speaking of recovery, Gary's house guest, Dr. Tom, seems to be mending nicely. He wants to return home to Pasadena this evening and start a reduced pace at work tomorrow. He first has to pass Dr. Gary's and Dr. Mary Lou's examination first. Additional guests came by yesterday for dinner and they even brought some meat for the BBQ. We had a feast yesterday, Gary had cooked up another Tri-Tip brisket (different recipe - a nice kick of spice), a triple berry sorbet (delish), Mike brought these thick lamb chops for the BBQ, corn, pasta, salad and vino. Gary is still full. A very nice meal.

 

[Gary A.]

Hops for this morning's Double IPA.

This has been on the news the last few days. IPAs Are Giving You Man Boobs

Guess it could give you something to do with the hand not holding the glass

Wow, what an interesting article ... not the man-boobs part ... but the rest of the article is quite interesting. Gary is off doing more research. Good thing this is a holiday, otherwise Gary won't get any work done.

 

[Gary A.]

BTW- Anyone watch the UCLA - Texas A&M game? At some point in the third quarter, UCLA was down by 34 points. UCLA score 35 unanswered points to win 45 to 44.

From the LA Times: "UCLA won. The Bruins really won. Honestly, they won. No, seriously, they won. ... have we written this already? - UCLA won, 45-44, In a result that still bears repeating. Thirty-four points down and they won. ..."

 

[vintagesnaps]

This headline seems to pretty well sum it up 'The Internet Falls In Love with Ancient Crackpot Study...'.

 

[SquarePeg41 2]

Well @limr I may be a day late but just found Raider's on tv (EPIX).

 

[limr34 3]

I am up far too late. First day of school tomorrow. And while I don't actually have to teach until Wednesday evening, traffic around campus and parking is going to be a cluster**** so I need to get there early to arrive before all the bs starts.

But I caught the end of the Tennessee vs Georgia Tech game and couldn't help but think about how happy our dear Sharon M, whom I still miss, would be I'm not a big fan of sweet liquor, but I'm thinking I might get a bottle of Fireball and take a shot every time the Vols win.