It seems to me that FPN on the Ursa Mini Pro isn’t really an issue. It seems that it’s operator error a lot: people under exposing and then lifting the shadows and seeing what wouldn’t be ther is the image were properly exposed to begin with. And if the user actually got a camera whose insides are messed up and it needs to be RMA’d, then they say so on the forums and it sounds like there is a huge issue but really its only a few people with a few bad cameras. The other thousands of cameras going out are just fine...otherwise thered be thousands of people complaining about the same thing instead of a few dozen, right?
It just sounds like noise and fpn complaints are really just operator error 98% of the time to me. The other 2%? Real issue with actually broken cameras. Maybe it’s 20%. It just seems that, though its possible to get a bad camera, the odds are actually small despite what tthe energy in a SUPPORT forum where youre supposed to air your issues, might have some people believe.
And I say this because I own a BMCC and have used the Pocket and lots of other digital cameras, and if I underwxpose I see FPN too...but that was my fault underexposing, not the camera’s fault...FPN-ing a correctly exposed image. Noise is fine. I like noise, esp in BMCC...it seems more like analog grain...and i like that texture. FPN? Only if i severly raise the noise floor because i screwed up exposure, or had to because low light docu stuff. But dealing with FPN seems way better than dealing with overexposed higlights. There’s nothing there to fix. Ha.
Anyway, this whole FPN thing seems mostly ridiculous. And from what I understand abot UMP and v4.X, it’s been mostly dealt with. Thoughts?
It just sounds like noise and fpn complaints are really just operator error 98% of the time to me. The other 2%? Real issue with actually broken cameras. Maybe it’s 20%. It just seems that, though its possible to get a bad camera, the odds are actually small despite what tthe energy in a SUPPORT forum where youre supposed to air your issues, might have some people believe.
And I say this because I own a BMCC and have used the Pocket and lots of other digital cameras, and if I underwxpose I see FPN too...but that was my fault underexposing, not the camera’s fault...FPN-ing a correctly exposed image. Noise is fine. I like noise, esp in BMCC...it seems more like analog grain...and i like that texture. FPN? Only if i severly raise the noise floor because i screwed up exposure, or had to because low light docu stuff. But dealing with FPN seems way better than dealing with overexposed higlights. There’s nothing there to fix. Ha.
Anyway, this whole FPN thing seems mostly ridiculous. And from what I understand abot UMP and v4.X, it’s been mostly dealt with. Thoughts?
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