First - a "MacBook Pro" is bad way to judge this. Most consumer LCD's won't be any better - none of them can even display the srgb colorspace.gamut. On my calibrated Sony LCD (which is able to display the full srgb colorspace) there is no banding that I can see. On my Sony CRT (Which has a far greater gamut than any LCD made) there is no banding on the posted jpgs. On the full rez files there is banding in the tent. when zoomed in 200-300 percent.
Edited by James Markus on Jul 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM GMT
I can see it on my monitor, but certainly don't have the tech skills to know where to lay the blame... I'm Presuming the shots at the top of the thread are the whole image? BTW your dog is most homely I have ever seen
I can plainly see the lines, especially in the crop of the ferris wheel. I'm sorry that this had to be your first experience with a Nikon, but I'm sure you'll get a good one after the exchange.
James Markus wrote:
here it is at approx. 300-400% On the tent just above the goats ear.
Now that you showed me where to look I zoomed up the original and on those it looks more like mach-banding than sensor banding. Your sample images are .JPG's - do you see the same thing in the raw files? Do you have sharpening turned on? Sharpening algorithms sometimes produce mach-banding-like effects because they try to enhance very small level differences. Turn off all sharpening (in camera and in NX) and shoot raw and see if you still get this.
I shot this raw and I believe sharping was applied because the setting was left on standard. I just got the camera that morning and brought the family out to the fair. And was just shooting away..I talk to ritz camera where I got it from and was able to mail if off and got priority 2 day shipping. The first person told me I could get a new camera in 2 days then the second person said 5 to 7 days..Im just pissed because I paid for overnight shipping and now I have to wait and hopefully it will still be in stock..
Why cant anyone see it wow.
goes to show the variability of monitors even when calibrated.
The banding is clearly apparent to me in all of the photos.
And remember monitors aren't the golden rule in image inspection, prints are. And with it that noticeable on the monitor its only going to get worse when it gets printed or post processed and stretched in diffrent directions thru photoshop.
