![]() ![]() ![]() If we have three, this could cause confusion, so we will not develop an APS-C version of the L-mount and will focus on the full screen. A small L-mount sensor could cause confusion on the market. Our strategy is very clear: we will strengthen the Micro 4/3 mounts and the L mount in full format. We want to become number 1 for full format hybrid cameras on the French market. We would like to expand the product line, and you should wait for the next announcements from Lumix cameras. Compact or SLR cameras will be on the decline. The full-size hybrid market will experience greater growth this year. Rather than chasing numbers, we would like to convey the message of our determination in the development of photography. The S1R sells less than the S1, but allows us to mark our intentions for the industry, especially for professional photographers. ![]() However, S1H sales are higher than expected due to its significant appeal to the video and film industry. It is in line with expectations and we are satisfied with the results.Īmong our three models, the S1 is the one that sells the most (in terms of quantity), because its price is affordable. These three models are offered at more than € 3,000, which has enabled us to obtain more than 10% of the market for full-size mirrorless (for the range of devices over € 3,000). Panasonic has 10% market share in the $3,000 camera segment: But for more complicated mesh warp tasks, I'd still use Affinity.The french website Photorend interviewed Yosuke Yamane, Director of Imaging Business Division at Panasonic: Its edits are stored with all the other PL6 edits in the dop sidecar file. The tool is easy to use, and it's nice that it's built right into PL6. That was why my first reaction was to regard this new feature as being of very little value to someone who also has a competent photo editor like PS or AP, as most of us do.īut I now think its more limited mesh warp capabilities will nevertheless prove useful in the non-destructive processing and editing of raw images. Yes, it's no surprise that Photoshop is a much better tool for fixing that type of image. I wonder if anyone else has a more positive impression? Do you think the upgrade is worth it? Personally, I can't see any point in it. What's more, this tool isn't built into PL6 it seems to be only in the stand-alone version, which I hardly every use. The rest of the Viewpoint add on is very good at correcting errant geometry and gets my recommendation if one doesn't already have Photoshop. I'm not saying Reshape couldn't work, but it's a lot of trial and error. With Photoshop Transform Warp in a variable box, it's easy: The adjustment on one node drags the next one a bit too much out of whack. I would use it fairly often to straighten unruly elements in my pic such as this old three shot pano which is sagging in the middle: ![]() It's not been updated since 2016, so I was hoping that VP 4.0 would be a big step forward, and have been playing with it.īut the only significant new feature is the ReShape warping tool, which seems a bit of a gimmick, that I would seldom use. I'm a long-time ViewPoint user, and make use of the version built into PhotoLab with every image. I suspect I'll be using the ReShape tool much more than I first thought! Looking at the uncorrected vs corrected corners:īottom left corner, original and stretched A wider, fully corrected image, with no vignetting, and no cropping needed. They avoid the vignetted corners by unnecessarily heavy cropping, producing a much narrower image.Ĭorrected in PL6 using the ReShape tool from VP4. This is the significantly narrower view that an OOC JPEG or most raw processors (eg, ACR, C1) would produce. Here's an image with such vignetting on the left side, because of a very slightly decentred lens This vignetting is only apparent because DxO gives a wider corrected image than most raw developers like ACR or C1): But the new stretching feature in VP4 gives another, easier way that can yield pretty good results. There are various ways of dealing with this: crop the dark corner off (works, but you lose image area), clone nearby areas over it (works, but a bit tedious) or try to lighten it with a graduated filter (easy, but doesn't usually work very well). This is particularly the case if the lens is decentred, and most are. But this sometimes means you get vignetted corners at the wide end of compact zooms, where the image circle doesn't quite cover the sensor. DxO is good at maximising the image size that it extracts from a raw file, much better than Adobe or C1. Here's another variant of that type of fix. Hey, that's cool, and something I'm going to try next time I have a similar perspective correction issue. ![]()
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