So Adobe has just released the Lightroom 3 Beta. Better performance, new features, yada yada yada. Whatever: the thing that made me download, install, and run it immediately was one particular new feature: film grain simulation.
This feature is the only thing I've tried so far with the new Lightroom. It's not bad. It's not Tri-X, by a wide margin, but for digital, it's not bad.
But it amuses me to no end – all these years, all this technology, all the mind-numbingly powerful computers, all to finally simulate film grain. I'll tell you a secret: I can do this better, and cheaper, already.
Nice to see digital starting to catch up, though.
Some poor fool wandered into Photo.net and asked in the medium format group if anyone still shot medium format.
Posted by: Rebecca | 22 October 2009 at 09:50 PM
And here I thought that except for some "Art" photography one tried to NOT have grainy images, or at least tried to minimize the effect when they were pushing their film "out of the envelope" for whatever reason to get the shot.
Just what I always wanted. GRAINY pixelated images.
Posted by: Brian J. Patterson | 26 October 2009 at 12:35 AM