Weird lines on tifs in photo matrix

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 22:46

I'm the first one to admit that I'm a noob at this photography lark so could someone explain to me what's going on below?

I'm importing the raws in PS and saving them as uncompressed tifs to try out some HDR's in photomatrix. Most of them are showing these weird artifacts only when I try importing them in photo matrix. In PS they look fine.

What's going on?

yak.h'cir · 16 Apr 2007 at 22:51

I don't know whats going on there but I do know that photomatrix will work directly with RAW files. Just select the RAWs you want to use when you generate a HDR image, then tone mapping. Then save the result as a tiff which you can then work on in PS.

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 22:58

I've just noticed on a few of the pictures I've taken more recently if I open them as raws in ps it's showing the same artifacts. In adobe bridge they look fine.

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:12

I just reset the camera settings put it to auto and tried taking the above picture.

edit crap you can't see it from that.

divine` · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:12

Overclocked?

My old PC did that when the RAM was getting a bit close to the limit.

edit - i see no lines above.

It'll be your PC i reckon.

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:21

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/5688/dscf0324gh5.jpg

Try that.

edit:

Again , imageshack is still resizing but I can just about see subtle lines on that one?

divine` · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:24

Oh yeah I see those now... could be the sensor/processing chip going a bit bandy

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:24

Also I've tried some raw's I took on the weekend and their fine.

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:35

Right,original size in all its glory. I just took that 2 mins ago in raw and converted it straight in PS.

http://www.toonstruck.co.uk/images/-2.jpg
In the preview mode before I save/open in PS it looks fine.

This will probably boil down to me being noobish, but I swear I've not changed much in the way of settings, and I was getting a similar effect on auto.

z0mbi3 · 16 Apr 2007 at 23:54

divine_madness said:
Oh yeah I see those now... could be the sensor/processing chip going a bit bandy

Do you suppose it's just me not being used to the settings? I wouldn't like to think it was a fault.

divine` · 17 Apr 2007 at 00:36

You wont get scan lines like that from changing settings...

Try saving a few random images off google etc. and opening/saving them in PS and see if any lines get introduced. If they do, it would point to the PC being the culprit.

z0mbi3 · 17 Apr 2007 at 08:00

It doesn't seem to be the PC, other images are fine. It seems to be only raw's I've taken more recently?

z0mbi3 · 17 Apr 2007 at 08:24

Right here's some more...

http://www.toonstruck.co.uk/images/flat.jpg - Me messing with the shutter speed

http://www.toonstruck.co.uk/images/flat2.jpg - Auto

gandhi · 17 Apr 2007 at 19:27

I wouldn't like to bet on it but it looks like a 'norwegian blue' Sensor to me.

(norwegian blue aka dead)

z0mbi3 · 17 Apr 2007 at 20:30

Dead or dieing anyway. I managed to take one ok macro earlier on but in general the exposure is way too high and those weird lines speak for theirselves.

Spoke to Fuji and they said it was a faulty CCD. The e-tailor I ordered from is well known for having previously had rubbish CS (scrapped their phone service in favour of e-notes), but I actually managed to get an RMA reference and address out of them today (same day as reporting it). Touch wood I should get a replacement early next week.

Still I got some good shots with it before it really went boobs up, so I'll be happy when I get my replacement.