FilmPack 8 released

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These can be seen easily on gray card photos. Using uniform blue surface is even better for that. I’m interested only in the “luma grain”, so checked “B&W Grain”. Only few don’t obviously show repeating pattern. My, still unverified, choice would be one of

  • Ilford XP2, HPS 800, HPS 400 Plus
  • Kodak Tri-X 400, T-Max 400, T-Max 3200 (but NOT T-Max P3200)
  • Berger BRF 400 Plus.

Maybe few other would qualify, but most of them are usable only for “busy” photos.

FP 8.0 release notes state that “The grain pattern applied to images is now unique for each rendering, avoiding repetitive texture patterns and delivering a more natural film look”, but clearly it wasn’t delivered.

From my old post DeepPRIME grid artifacts at insane settings - #5 by Wlodek about PL7/FP7:
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The grain provided by DxO probably comes from replicating the scan of 7x7mm
film area and the repeating pattern can be quite visible for some films.
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I am getting the exact same results in FP8 standalone as in PL9 with FP8. I tried multiple grain renderings.

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I’m unable to produce any squaring no matter what to be used both setting type in rendering as well as grain, but also specifically in Grain.

And all my grain as unique. Ran a couple of hundred DNGs and applied grain without noticeable repetitive patterns.

But I’m on M1 Mac.

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Agree, for normal photos it’s not a problem. Unless you have too much of clear sky.

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I wouldn’t be so sure! In these two test images, cell borders are seen throughout:

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That’s really messy.

What about if you only apply optical correction, wide color space and grain.

Still get that?

I would guess it works ok then.
Any chance you used any noise suppression?

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Yeeugghh! That is truly awful

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It’s still easily seen here for a grey card photo with only FP ‘Grain’ tool used, ‘No-Corrections’ defaults otherwise. Windows, if it matters.

Too much sky, too smooth :wink: :wink:

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Oof, I’m being gaslighted! :smile:

I don’t know if I’ll use grain in practice - and if I do, I’ll just pick one that doesn’t look so bad. But I can’t give DxO a pass here. I submitted the bug report today as well as some critical feedback about FP8.

Yes, the images are no different.

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Off topic:

Thanks for tolerating my rather harsh sense of humour.

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Absolutely not. :two_hearts:

So this is another windows specific issue then? Annoying.