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Post #605323

Author
Max_Rebo
Parent topic
STENDEC's Hybrid SE (part-finished project?)
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Date created
4-Nov-2012, 6:25 PM

You_Too said:

I've been comparing the 97 SE versions to help dark_jedi with an eventual future project, and I can tell you that the Flunk version is not the best.

Flunk has crushed shadow detail and is oversharpened.

Reivax has some weird frame-blending which adds more smearing, and makes each shot fade into each other by one frame.

The best is Gkar, and TB is second, being a bit more blurry than Gkar.

By the way, by Hybrid, do you mean like layering Gkar and TB on each other to get more detail out of them?

 

Thought I'd share my experience of this, when I was actively working on my hybrids I thought the order of sources was Flunk > TB > GKAR > Reivax.

The GKAR and Reivax have been through more filtering than the others see comparison pictures here which removed some dirt but also some details see here

Flunk does suffer from having has the saturation, contrast and sharpness by the guy who made it (there's a post somewhere where he says this but I don't know where) and as you say this may mean there are some crushed blacks (i never looked into it but I believe you) and there are definitely some problems with clipping on over saturated reds, but the mid range detail still seems good and the it is the least cropped of all the sources so has some merit. However it may be that the perceived detail (see picture of chewie in first link) is a result of the sharpening that was applied. 

It was my intention to correct all the levels and match the colours all the sources then composite the highs and lows in from the TB back into the Flunk, this should be possible as they derive from a common source and map pixel to pixel. (and it is still my intention it's just very delayed).

But it is fair to say that the TB is probably the best in it's current state, just trying to say that there could still be some value in the Flunk.