![]() ![]() This combined energy is so intense that it is said to channel divine inspiration.Ĭonsequently, rutile quartz is widely known to foster clarity of thought, fuel spiritual creativity, promote greater insight, and guide decisive action. Benefits And Healing Properties Of Rutilated Quartzīecause rutilated quartz is composed of both rutile and quartz, it contains the healing properties and benefits of both. It is thought of as a stone of celestial power, elevating and illuminating the soul, amplifying intention, and enhancing intuition. Symbolically, rutilated quartz is linked with the higher realms. The term “rutile” comes from the Latin word for red, “ rutilus”, as the mineral’s primary color is a rich red. Inclusions may also be reddish-brown, coppery, silvery, or even black, and either fine and threadlike or chunky. This is why golden rutilated quartz is often referred to as angel’s hair quartz. Such inclusions can look like hay or strands of golden hair. When the iron oxide in rutile quartz is high, the inclusions take on redder and often golden tones. While the quartz in rutilated quartz can be either smoky or clear and sometimes even black, the color of the rutile inclusions will depend on their iron oxide content. Rutilated quartz is a variety of quartz containing needle-like inclusions of rutile, a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide (with large amounts of iron oxide). Fashion designers and collectors began to appreciate the ethereal beauty of rutilated quartz, sometimes likening its shimmering rutile threads to angel’s hair. Only pure quartz was viewed as valuable and so this variety was seen as tainted.Īround the middle of the 20th century, however, this began to change. Yes.but there is sharpening going on.and I never liked the results of the halos it sometimes gives.Like a diamond in the rough, rutilated quartz was long disregarded by miners and mineral sorters as worthless. From what I read somewhere (can't locate source, sorry), the iZoom is processed in-camera using intelligent Resolution, so there's much less image degradation than simple DZ. I have been using this feature for almost 10 years now, with various FZ's. Thats why EZ zoom is crops, but does no interpolation.resolution stays at fixed lower setting. In PP, you just crop.without the degredating interpolation, scaling up the resolution. ![]() But, it's not immediately obvious to me why that produces a better result than simple digital zoom at the same magnification.ĭigital zoom is a simple sensor crop, same as if you'd cropped in PP to artificially 'zoom' a portion of your imageĪctually Digital zoom does interpolates the resolution back up to the original resolution. Image noise in the original file can be smoothed out in a few different ways, but in handling noise, we're probably best off using a good after-market noise reduction program, rather than relying on in-camera noise reduction or other software (or hardware) manipulations. Detail not captured in the original RAW file can never be manufactured. To me, the important part of this is that none of these non-optical "zooms" will add detail. But I have never thought that the detail and noise were improved, when compared to a cropped and edited RAW file, providing the images are displayed at the same size. ![]() One benefit of the cropped sensor approach is that I can frame the subject better, and I can sometimes get a more accurate exposure. But for best results, I've never found anything better than a carefully cropped and processed RAW file. This suggests that the i.ZOOM scaling up is the source of the enlarged noise that Graham doesn't like - but it is perhaps somewhat better than EZoom when used in the lower half of its addtional range extension.įor small prints, web displays, cell phone displays, and for images which don't rely on rendition of fine detail (buildings, distant landscapes, some portraits) cropped sensors and software generated fixes can be perfectly fine. "Now let's look at the case of I.Zoom or Panasonic's "intelligent zoom feature" In this mode of operation the image dimensions always remain the same 4000 x 3000, 3264 x 2448, 2048 x1536 etc for the 12M, 8M and 5M file sizes however in this mode the magnification is achieved by cropping into the image from the sensor and then re-sizing it to the original dimensions in software." How many of Panasonic's features truly work remain a mystery, so we're left to do as Graham has done and test them to see what they do rather than peeling back into how they do it. I sent him an email a couple of weeks ago but got no reply. It tells why and when to use is but doesn't really explain the mechanics of what's done in the camera. Yes, I've watched that video a couple of times. ![]()
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