| With the comparison shots as posted, I prefer the classic to the PV2 at this point. If anything, I noticed more saturation in the PV2 Autobrite(tm)d shot (see the white pants of the man leaning on the fence in the background); also, see the bricks to the left of Confucius' head and left side in the PV2 shot...my imagination, or did they perform some kind of cellular division while I was fumbling in my pocket for the cam? For now anyway, I think any comparison is meaningless so long as the Windows driver insists on postprocessing the fertilizer out of the images. You might notice there are JPEG artifacts in both...especially evident if you crank the gamma in a just-downloaded dark PV2 image...yes folks, the Foxz2 driver is returning it as a lossy JPEG, completely defeating the purpose of having a crazy, lossless* compression format on your camera! I don't know if anyone has yet posted a list of the postprocess filters the Foxz2 driver applies, but it's exhaustive - if no one has, I'll fish it out of the DLL and post it.
@brite_eye: Faster than a sleeping bullet, more powerful than a toy locomotive... able to leave tall buildings with a single bound! Whereever there is patching, jiggering, crude hackery, jerry-rigging or bush jobbing to be done, Duct Tape Man is there to lend a helping roll (err, hand). Yep, that's the Octoberween outfit that almost didn't make me not famous. Cexx.org was recently migrated over to a new web host; there are some minor snags yet in moving the databases over (the web boards alone expand to a 400+ meg SQL query!), so it'll be a few days yet before all the database-driven stuff (including bloggg) are up and running again.
*SMaL has a very creative definition of 'lossless', going by the compression patent application - it throws away LSBs until the compressed image reaches the target size... | |
