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Luvwine wrote:
Okay, thanks to Fred's and others' postings, I went ahead and downloaded the SR app the other day. I intend to test it out more soon. Today I tried it for the first time and just took a pic in my messy office at home and shot a high dynamic range scene and underexposed it a bit (1 stop on the exposure compensation dial) on purpose. I then developed it and pushed the exposure by two stops. See below for the results, but color me impressed with the lack of noise. I used only a 16 picture blend. Here is what I got:
Scene (shot with Loxia 50 at F8, if it matters):
http://m9.i.pbase.com/o9/91/505291/1/164835089.amfQ5lOm._DSC0333.jpg
Here is a 100% crop of the normal single frame shot:
http://m8.i.pbase.com/o9/91/505291/1/164835088.NioAJMa3.Normalcrop0332.jpg
Here it is with 16 shots processed by the SR app:
http://m7.i.pbase.com/o9/91/505291/1/164835087.7YAvTWal.SRcrop0333.jpg
To me, it is a night and day kind of difference. The hard part will be figuring out when not to use the app and when to use it for landscapes. Windy conditions will argue against it, but calm conditions will argue in favor of its use, I would think. It is fascinating that the greatest benefit may come from a use quite apart from that for which it is intended. That is, the noise reduction in the shadows might be more useful day to day than the ND filter effect for which the app was designed and marketed.
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Yes, that's what I've been telling people! The SNR and color improvement is astonishing with this app. I am not sure if Sony knows how good this really is. It's like shooing at ISO 25!
If you use 32 images in SR, you are able to underexpose your shots about 3.5 stops and still have very clean shadows (with the addition of a ND effect). Imaging how useful this tool is for landscapes! Whenever possible, I practically use it for all my shooting, instead of bracketing.
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