Hi, I would like to ask owners of full frame cameras for a quick test, so that I can compare to mine.
The test:
1 - Set camera to manual 1/8,000 f/8 ISO 200
2 - Cover lens with lens cap
3 - Shoot
either
4.1a - Open the raw in Darktable 2.7, compress history stack to original, set filmic to HDR++ preset and in filmic, push the middle grey luminance slider all the way down to left;
4.1b - Export to jpg 100% 1920 and post here
or
4.1b - Post the raw file so that I can do step 4.1a above
Sorry, I should have made it clear from the beginning.
I had already addressed this question before here in the forum when I edited a picture I took with this old camera I bought a month ago.
Today, while editing another picture, the bands showed up again but, this time, I researched the Internet to see what they mean, and found this post where they were doing the steps above to reveal the noise pattern.
I’ve asked for this test to confirm what they say on the web, which is, basically, the sensor end-of-life, and that a newer camera wouldn’t show that pattern.
So, although I still get good images when the light is good and uniform, it seems that the camera shows its limits in recovering deeper shadows.
Here’s the picture I was editing today (exposure + filmic):
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