On the screen there's a death, there's a rustle of cloth and a sickly voice calling me handsome.

[reddragdiva]

I've been running wild on the Digital Photography Review Canon Talk forum. I just keep forgetting that the 'Merkins know an Ixus 50 as an SD400. I must revive some of the ex-cameras lying around ... I liked this thread on nightclub cameras.

Why digital cameras are so bad at purple. If you can't be bothered with the Flash presentation, they claim that digital cameras only reach down the spectrum as far as blue, so violet is missing entirely. And that their Photoshop plugin can fix this, presumably by educated guesswork. Does anyone know more about this? Someone linked to how they fix it by hand.

Two new generic batteries just arrived for my camera, ten quid, 1000mAh (the Canon standard ones are 700mAh). I'm quite pleased.

This camera is definitely deceased (translation of this). That steel Ixus case isn't actually truckproof. Your camera or your life!

In non-photography, someone has started a doll wiki. arkady and I are trying to drag the dollie kids into it. And redcountess and I bought a bed yesterday. The timing is awful, but so's the old mattress — there's actually springs sticking out of it. I also got a pic of Liz out of the house!

Comments

[edwards.livejournal.com]

Not all digital cameras are bad at purple, but then, people do like to ignore Sigma and their Foveon based SD9/10 cameras...

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Not all digital cameras are bad at purple, my little Fuji finepix does it fine (didn't have to adjust the colours at all on the crocus pic I used for my mum's mother's day card, and look at the pretty icon, same camera) and Forest's Nikon D50 captured the rich tones of some irises beautifully the other day. My first Kodak digi was crap at red for some reason, I think digital cameras are potentially more prone to colour problems at various wavelengths, and the errors are possibly more pronounced at the budget end of the scale, but I don't think its possible to generalise. And there's always photoshop anyway :)

[blackbirdcd.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. I'll have to check my camera at home, but I recall shooting purple just fine. I'm betting that it's more of a white balance problem.

[reddragdiva]

There's red-and-blue and then there's violet. I've found some purple things that I just can't get a decent colour on, despite the most appalling photo editor contortions, even though the rest of the shot seems balanced.

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

You see, if everybody had rubbish colour vision like wot I do, this purple lark wouldn't even be an issue... I shall have to ask somebody how well my Canon deals with it; my brother's Ixus 5 is probably pretty similar to yours in that respect.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i can't get a decent shot of my hair (blacklight coloured). it comes out blue. i'll see if i can talk Richard into doing a hair related comparison of Sigma SD9 and regular digicam...

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Photographic purple hair is also an issue for me. For various reasons.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

That is a seriously cool building, whatever it is.

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

i some times have purple problems , though i usually put it down to the rgb work space and and convert to web specs, rather than my camera (canon A80)

see current toy pic on my lj, the lilac and purple seem pretty much ok to me in that, though It was taken in very low light, no flash, 400 iso , on tungston auto white balance setting. i did some colour balance and correction in photoshop..

I find i get bigger problems with reds blowing out.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Is this connected to the in(famous) purple fringing?

[reddragdiva]

It's the old tram depot in Walthamstow.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Bloody english and their inherent sense of architectural style.
Compare that to Greenwood (http://www.answers.com/topic/greenwood-railway-station-perth) train station.

[reddragdiva]

No, that's chromatic aberration; this is an inability to see down the spectrum as far as violet at all.