The horizontal banding issue (AGAIN!)

[OlyFlyer]

...Anyway if it's showing in just a few samples then it is more a QC issue and sometimes customer service issue. All current cameras will show banding if you push enough.

Actually, I managed to take some images yesterday, bright sun, outdoors, ISO1600, no NR, EV -2 and featureless, yellow wall and some with a grey roof from beneeth in an angle. I have just checked the images, noisy as expected, underexposed as expected but definitely no banding. Maybe I should have tested with longer exposure times but then it would not have been underexposed. So I guess I am not worried for my camera. I agree with the first sentence in the quote but may not agree with the second. I don't know how to push mine to get banding but I guess if I spend a lot of time I may find a way.

Blu, since you are a banding expert :bsmilie: (sorry for the bad joke), did you test your new E-500?

 

[microcosm]

I wonder if any of Adobe's engineers and third party plug in developers are working on a "de-banding" plug in? That would be a money maker!

 

[Blu-By-U]

Could not force any banding out of the E-500 but the E-500 suffers from bright spots due to hot sensor on long exposures. So what else is new??:dunno:

 

[OlyFlyer]

Could not force any banding out of the E-500 but the E-500 suffers from bright spots due to hot sensor on long exposures. So what else is new??:dunno:

Time for a pixel mapping maybe?

 

[cjtune]

Anyway if it's showing in just a few samples then it is more a QC issue and sometimes customer service issue. All current cameras will show banding if you push enough.

Have you tested all current cameras before?

 

[grantyale]

Have you tested all current cameras before?

No I have not. Banding can be dealt with at hardware level or software level. Not all raw files carry forward the "RAW" signal.