Original camcorder
picture. Thunderstorm atmosphere instead of sunny weather.
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Despite of the really bright sunny weather, this looks almost like "storm's coming". The sky looses color saturation to noise, the water looks murky and the sail desaturated and obscured by too much shadow.
Temporal smoother
only. Sky is much cleaner and has more color now.
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It may appear as if there was loss of detail
in the clouds, but these 'details' were just noise grains, as
one would easily see in the moving picture and also here at a
closer look.
Same picture
as above, cleaned and 1.5 gamma correction. Still a bit dark maybe.
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Color has also been enhanced, partly according
to taste, and partly because gamma reduces contrast and therefore
also color contrast.
The VirtualDub
filter chain for the 1.5 gamma correction
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Brightness, contrast and color were adjusted to deliver full color and brightness range. The VHS filter is used to correct color displacement and is useful for analog camcorders only !
Same picture as
above, 1.8 gamma correction. Probably too much now.
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This now really looks as sunny as it was, although the clouds get a bit fainted. A matter of taste and how it looks on the actual TV used.
The VirtualDub
filter chain for Gamma 1.8.
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Same picture,
1.5 gamma correction plus color/contrast enhancement.
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The VirtualDub
filter chain for Gamma 1.5 enhanced.
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Filter detail for all chains
Again, the VHS filter is for analog recordings
only !
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