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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ray Sachs" data-source="post: 68834" data-attributes="member: 365">OK, there are enough questions, that I'll show my experience with orbs, which is pretty limited in daytime shooting, but bad enough to bother me for low light shooting.Here's the only daylight shot that I'd say the orbs have pretty much wrecked. Full size:[ATTACH=full]50709[/ATTACH]Crop of the actual orbs, which run together here, but have pretty hard and defined edges:[ATTACH=full]50710[/ATTACH]Another daylight shot that has them, but that never would have bothered me initially. On closer examination, the one toward the left of the photo is enough to bother me, the smaller ones to the right I had to look pretty hard to even notice - first full size:[ATTACH=full]50711[/ATTACH]And two crops:[ATTACH=full]50712[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]50713[/ATTACH]Here's a pretty typical urban night shot, where the orbs are abundant and big enough to be a problem - first, full size:[ATTACH=full]50714[/ATTACH]And a crop of the orbs:[ATTACH=full]50715[/ATTACH]And another evening shots where the orbs are abundant but generally small enough not to bother me (I'm not counting the obvious lights, which may have orbed or not, but would look about the same regardless):[ATTACH=full]50716[/ATTACH]And crops, just to show that they are orbs but, again, too small to really bother me:[ATTACH=full]50717[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]180548[/ATTACH]As I've said before, none of this bothers me for daylight shooting. The bad example is the only one I've found like that and the other is much more typical, but doesn't bother me. The night images are a problem though - the first is much more typical than the second. In its current iteration, I like it as a daylight camera but don't really trust it for urban low light shooting, which I do a lot of when I'm in urban areas. I'll be interested to see if the fix can indeed fix the bad parts without also hurting the good parts. I don't have any technical basis for this, but my intuition tells me they may be opposite sides of the same coin and one may not be possible without the other.-Ray</blockquote>

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