Re: Would you prefer D800 with or without AA filter ?
Ratatosk wrote:
No one seems to have the knowledge to tell me about the specific implications of AA-filter or not in my area of photography. Seems to me that shows that most just don\'t know much about this.
All you that are so much against non AA-filter cameras, where are your photos to prove your point?
All I see is proof, photos, showing how much better it actually is without the AA-filter, how much better the photo looks to the eye, which is the only thing that matters.
There\'s plenty that\'s been talked about here.
It\'s really not difficult (if you understand signal processing). No AA filter means that you will get artifacting when shooting a scene with fine detail, of which moire is one example. That\'s not in question. If you are looking to get data that is faithful to reality, removing the AA filter does nothing but harm.
The only \"proof\" I see in AA less pictures is proof of artifacting, false detail, and where moire has been removed, the loss of detail that otherwise would have been there. Then again, in cameras with an AA filter, sometimes there is still moire, there\'s a loss of actuance due to the filter (and recovering that loses detail). False detail is often pleasing to the eye though, so it may not be a bad thing.
My own opinion is that the presence or lack of an AA filter for a high MP camera is photographically utterly irrelevant. I have never seen a good picture and had my first, second or third impression be \"oh, this would look so much better with an AA filter\" or \"oh, the lack of that last bit of sharpness in this picture really takes something away\".
MF cameras don\'t have AA filters because their heritage is astronomy and surveillance, where spatial resolution was very important and colour resolution irrelevant. If they had AA filters, 90% of people preaching about their benefits would never even know the thing existed. There comes a point where gear talk starts heading even more deeply into people blowharding without understanding pretty simple maths and physics, and AA filters seem to be one of those trigger topics.
Feb 05, 2012 at 03:52 PM
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