@black_daveth asked for a Nikon Z lens-based PlayRaw, so here goes…
This is one of the first images I shot with m Nikon Z 6. So many things about this image intrigue me, firstoff the scene: Grocery-store bouquet I’d brought home that day, in a vase sitting in our kitchen sink, lit by a north-facing bay window. Y’don’t need a priceless location…
And, and, the particular arrangement of the light, along with a somewhat carefully chosen exposure IIRC, and the rendition I’m posting Requires NO Processing, beside the requisite black-subtract, white balance (with as-shot multipliers), and a decent demosaic:
No tone curve other than the gamma 2.2 curve in the export-to-sRGB color profile; yep, filmic, sigmoid, log, whatever - not needed.
No distortion/vignetting correction. Vignetting is just subsumed by the shadows, but distortion isn’t evident even in the sweeping curves of the leaves at the top. I tried the lensfun profile correction, it just makes the leaves curve differently.
No color correction. The camera profile is the simple matrix profile libraw supplied. I think even the purples resolve nicely in the destination gamut.
This is the kit Nikkor S 24-70/4 lens. Every place I look in the image is well-resolved, somewhat owing to the f11 depth-of-field, but it’s just clean and crisp overall, well to my eye at least. I went from a DX D7000 to full frame here, so that observation may be a bit jaundiced…
Anyway, here’s the raw:
DSZ_0445.NEF (27.8 MB)
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