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Do sensors age?
Feb 12, 2024 16:32:31 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Playing around with 25 year old Fujifilm MX-2900 get these weird colors
22 years ago nice colors even if camera does nor allow white balance.
Look at ski, gravel around chairs is brown, walkway on bottom right gray
Just curious
22 years ago nice colors even if camera does nor allow white balance.
Look at ski, gravel around chairs is brown, walkway on bottom right gray
Just curious
Feb 12, 2024 16:35:51 #
This looks like an infrared conversion. If this was the unedited output, it would be better for you to store the attachment for inspection of the original EXIF data.
Without the telling details of a stored attachment, enjoy the wild guesses and conspiracy theories this post and image will generate ....
Without the telling details of a stored attachment, enjoy the wild guesses and conspiracy theories this post and image will generate ....
Feb 12, 2024 16:46:47 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
Sorry for not selecting store original
Yes it looks like color IR!
Also found on line manual,and WB can be set. Camera charging battery is old
Yes it looks like color IR!
Also found on line manual,and WB can be set. Camera charging battery is old
Feb 12, 2024 18:48:03 #
It could also be aging coating or deposits from the air on the lens giving a tint to the image.
On really smoggy days (LA Metro Area) I have to clean the deposits off my glasses.
On really smoggy days (LA Metro Area) I have to clean the deposits off my glasses.
Feb 12, 2024 19:57:52 #
Feb 12, 2024 21:57:08 #
Everything ages to some degree but I think in this example it's just the technology used back then wasn't as good as today with regards to dynamic range and color science and processing. With enough post editing you can probably alter that image to make it appear as if from a more recent model. There probably is some aging effect (fading) on the sensor color filter. So, if you take a camera of today, take a test shot (RAW), use it for 25 years, then take the same test shot 25 years from now with same lighting and exposure, I am sure there will be some degradation in the image due to the color filter fading.
Feb 13, 2024 01:02:46 #
Rongnongno wrote:
I am curious as to why this is not in the gallery or somewhere else...
Curiosity is *often* a good thing.
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Feb 13, 2024 02:28:31 #
chrisg-optical wrote:
There probably is some aging effect (fading) on the sensor color filter.
My sensors filters do not fade, cuz I protect them. Dyes arent fading in darkness. They will fade only while exposed to light that incudes UV. The most damaging UV wavelengths are the shortest ones and glass doesnt pass those.
My filters spend most of their time in complete darkness. Only when I use my camera can any light strike the filters, and its not raw daylight. It has been diminished by passing thru a lens. I never leave my camera without lens or body cap sitting in the sun with the sensor exposed.
And finally, what little light sometimes comes thru the lens and strikes the sensor has been filtered by a UV filter.
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Feb 13, 2024 07:36:13 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
White Balance if straight out of camera maybe? Did you adjust the White Balance or Color? How about old coatings on old lenses?
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Feb 13, 2024 10:43:33 #
Feb 13, 2024 10:45:38 #
Tote1940 wrote:
White balance on Auto, no custom setting
So, is it going to be a guess game? Or, you'll attach and store the unaltered original image?
Feb 13, 2024 11:36:13 #
Fujifilm are fond of their film simulation modes. Have you inadvertently left it in one of those modes or possibly a Scene mode?
Feb 13, 2024 17:04:37 #
Tote1940
Loc: Dallas
CHG_CANON wrote:
So, is it going to be a guess game? Or, you'll attach and store the unaltered original image?
OK finally figured it out.
Funny looking shots were saved as TIFFs, when JPEG used colors look ok, samples below.
Not a problem with sensors but with TIFF coversion into image in screen
Not bad for 25 year old camera
Thank you fellow hoggers
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