study

attempt at mimicking the overly cheap aspect of some early y2k digicams, from a picture i took with my Z30 (24 megapixel mirrorless)

the steps

• disabled white balance
• marginaly adjusted some colors
• 1 megapixel 3:2 ratio (1226x816), downscaled nearest-neighbor to preserve noise
• dithered to 256 colors (optimum palette), positioned ditering [note: web palette looked like absolute trash]

this is not the first time i downscaled an image for noise

ideas to make it more interesting:

• crop to lose pixels
• increase noise in post by reducing precision
• scale down more heavily, to half a megapixel or even less
• use a pentax q raw (tastier noise, probably less "authentic" (i don't care))

cleaned up my room, got some new furniture, now i have space for my old panasonic crt, just a shot of the reflection in it :)