One of my more popular photos was this one from back in 2009, taken with the K20 and FA 31 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4331502051/in/album-72157623355877348/ I was always frustrated that the poor low light noise of the K20 adversely affected the image quality. I just spent some time this afternoon playing around with it in Lightroom classic 13.1, which has better noise reduction, and also much better adjustment brushes. Here is the reprocessed version https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53509486021/in/album-72177720314566102/ I've made a lot of attempts at cleaning it up over the past 15 years: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=99496143%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=20090922-lrc32569-&view_all=1 Anyways, this is one of the reasons that I shoot in raw, because the tools to rescue old files keep getting better. -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood

By the way, the new tools still have some rough edges. I get weird artifacts in develop when processing it, fortunately they go away in loupe mode and final processing > On Feb 4, 2024, at 5:45 PM, Larry Colen <lrc@red4est.com> wrote: > > One of my more popular photos was this one from back in 2009, taken with the K20 and FA 31 > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4331502051/in/album-72157623355877348/ > > I was always frustrated that the poor low light noise of the K20 adversely affected the image quality. I just spent some time this afternoon playing around with it in Lightroom classic 13.1, which has better noise reduction, and also much better adjustment brushes. > > Here is the reprocessed version > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53509486021/in/album-72177720314566102/ > > I've made a lot of attempts at cleaning it up over the past 15 years: > https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=99496143%40N00&sort=date-taken-desc&text=20090922-lrc32569-&view_all=1 > > Anyways, this is one of the reasons that I shoot in raw, because the tools to rescue old files keep getting better. > > -- > Larry Colen > lrc@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. > -- Larry Colen lrc@red4est.com. sent from Mirkwood

Well done with the lighthouse! "I was always frustrated that the poor low light noise of the K20 adversely affected the image quality." I think we all were. Before the Sony sensors from the K5 onwards you couldn't really shoot much above ISO 400. "Anyways, this is one of the reasons that I shoot in raw, because the tools to rescue old files keep getting better." With AI & Elon Musk's brain implants we may eventually be able to recover anything we have ever seen directly from our brains!? Alan C

> On 5 Feb 2024, at 06:08, Alan C <cole@lantic.net> wrote: > > […] > With AI & Elon Musk's brain implants we may eventually be able to recover anything we have ever seen directly from our brains!? > That’ll keep the psychiatric industry going for a while. Maybe even longer than Larry’s excellent lighthouse, which should be a compulsory feature in every shrink’s office.