August 14, 2019 update




A lot has happened since the last post.
I have acquired a Konica Minolta MAxxum 5D, replete with strap, charger and rechargable batteries.
Everything works...exfept the CCD. All the pictures taken are blacked out. There's no visible physical damage to the unit. I'm considering opening up the unit and perhaps looking for a loose connection caused by a drop of the camera. I located and downloaded  a service manual with diagrams and service data.

I want to continue some exploration of HDR imaging. To this end, I combined my interest in my cell phone's cameras with my HDR interest and found a few programs that seem to do a good job at HDR or providing the needed lo-res images for assembling an HDR image.

I prefer the assembly method. The tonemap compressor from Radiance, programmed by Eric Reinhard, is the best general purpose compressor I've run across in the years of working, albeit intermittently, with HDR.

The apps for the phone are from the Apple AppStore and do cost money. For those interested, they are:

ProCam 6
Camera+ 2
NightCap, for low light and night shots

Im going through a learning curve with my new LG oled SmartTV. There are screen 'modes' such as Cinema, Hoe Cinema, HDR Effect, Game, Sports, Vivid, Technicolor, and more. Add to this Dolby Vision and its variants, and many possible settings become possible.
I usually flip through the SmartTV screen modes if the movie I'm watching seems, somehow, off.
Each of the built-in modes is adjustable and has numerous settings itself. I don't suppose the thought occurred to anyone the average consumer does not like having so many tech-based decisions to make.

Does your SmartTV peak out at 1000 nits???

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