By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
19:44
is the photo taken in this size?
Satio takes weird long pictures.
is this 16:9?
can it take 4:3?
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One thing that has been special with most of the pictures that have been in my sample galleries is that they have been straight out of the Satio, i.e. totally unprocessed. This of course to give you a good idea of what Satio is capable of – what it gives you to work with. However today the majority of pictures we see during a day has had at least some and in most cases a lot (e.g. advertising) of post processing done to them.
I would expect most of the pictures seen on services like Flickr, Picasa and others to at least have some kind of post processing applied. Therefore I’m glad to see that Sandeep has started to post some post processed pictures for us to look at.
Don’t get me wrong here, the pictures from Satio are of course usable without post processing but just as with pictures from any other camera (phone, P&S or SLR) the photographer gets another level of control by tweaking things afterwards. The endless possibilities in post processing is really one of the revolutions that digital photography has brought us!
Think about it, just a decade or two ago you had to be some kind of dark room chemistry expert do these things. Today anyone can do it with huge amounts of free and easy to use software available.
Here’s two of his processed pictures that I really think has that wow factor!
As usual you find all of his work on his blog and in his picasa album.
By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
19:44
is the photo taken in this size?
Satio takes weird long pictures.
is this 16:9?
can it take 4:3?
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By Rikard Skogberg
3rd October 2009.
19:45
Ivan,
Yes, In one of the earliest posts of this blog I think I gave a comment with all modes listed..
In short, 12 MP is 4:3, the default setting is 9 MP 16:9 and there are some more of course.
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By YuTh
3rd October 2009.
19:46
It take 12MP in 4:3 and 9MP in 16:9
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By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
19:47
but its 2250×4000..
so i guess its cropped.
Is this Geylang? =
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By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
19:50
woo. thanks!
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By Rikard Skogberg
3rd October 2009.
19:52
Hmm.. just calculated a bit here.. 2250×4000 seems to be 16:9 to me..
found my old comment with all modes listed also:
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/satio/2009/09/15/sample-video-panorama/comment-page-1/#comment-706
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By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
19:55
By sandeep
3rd October 2009.
19:58
Thanks guys! Rik is right. Most of the digital post processing techniques that we see these days are derived off darkroom techniques. I learned to develop and print off B&W films a while ago, so I feel that I can understand these tools better.
Ivan, It’s next to Peninsula Plaza.
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By Piotr Mazurkiewicz
3rd October 2009.
20:01
I know, Sandeep is extremely helpfull. I am following his blog on daily basis, and we have some really interesting conversations there. he’s for example giving tips for guys like me, who don’t know that much about photography ![]()
He also demonstrates different modes, personally I think beach/snow is the one for me ![]()
BTW, regarding the ratios introduces by SE, I think they are very reasonable. 9MP picture is basically a 12MP picture, with a bit that has been simply.. cut ![]()
So 12MP seems to be the best option, however 16:9 ratio is still welcome for picture-taking experience
I find 3:2 radio a bit strange though
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By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
20:03
of course im being a muddle head!
literally 4000:3000 = 4:3, haha.
but i’ve always got this in my mind.
why is it that 4000×3000 = 120,000 000.
by why is it 12.1 mega?
i could understand if 3264×2448 = 7990272
and SE decides to round it up to 8 mega and
2592×1944 = 5038848
and round down to a five.
but since 4000×3000 is quite an obvious number why is there a ‘.1′?
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By Rikard Skogberg
3rd October 2009.
20:05
I really love this one also but because of the issues we’re having with size-limitations on the blog I couldn’t put it here in the post. I wouldn’t want to process Sandeeps pics to get the filesize down ![]()
http://picasaweb.google.com/sandblaster2001/SonyEricssonSatioPictures#5387928646556050178
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By moshik
3rd October 2009.
20:06
hey.. piotr.. about battery treatment…
Can I treat the battery but also while charging, play around with the Satio or just leave it charging and not touch it??
thanks in advance…
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By Piotr Mazurkiewicz
3rd October 2009.
20:06
Ivan, that very common with all cameras. I could explain it to you, but I’d probably sound unprofessional, so I am sure Sandeep or Rik will do it better than I would, since I know they’re around anyway
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By Piotr Mazurkiewicz
3rd October 2009.
20:06
Yep, that shouldn’t be a problem, as you’re providing power faster than you’re using it, so the battery is still charging
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By sandeep
3rd October 2009.
20:09
Ivan: The “0.1″ comes from the total number of photosites on the sensor. In digital cameras, the actual number of photosites that are used to take the picture is slightly lesser than this. Hence the difference.
Don’t worry about it though. All camera manufacturers specify the larger number for marketing reasons.
Rik, feel free to resize the images!
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By Ivan Khoo
3rd October 2009.
20:12
ohhhkayy.. oh well. its just a 100000 difference when i have 12000000 of them already. lol.
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By Rikard Skogberg
3rd October 2009.
20:18
Sandeep,
Thanks, just added it. I didn’t resize as such, just opened it and saved it again with a little more aggressive jpg compression.
Regarding the question of 12.1 vs 12.0.. I have thought about that difference as well and Googled it a bit a while ago and I think Sandeeps explanation is perfectly correct.
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By Adel
3rd October 2009.
20:19
What type of softwares do you use to process photos? Thanks.
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By sandeep
3rd October 2009.
20:23
Adel: You can use pretty much any decent image editing software out there for increasing contrast, saturation etc. I work in the CG industry, so I get to use photoshop etc. But you can get similar results with free softwares such as GiMP, Picasa and so on.
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By moshik
3rd October 2009.
20:30
you know.. there is 1 thing I have noticed in Satio that bothers me alot…
you CANT use both flash and image stabilizer at the same time! ![]()
why is that?!
its so weird…
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