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 p.19 #15 · Still no love for the Ricoh GXR? | |
rscheffler wrote:
...In case it wasn't clear, the last two images from the cemetery above are the same file. The first 'as shot' and the second after I did some dodging to reveal the structure. This is my usual approach with the M9, which does not like clipped highlight values, so I err on the side of underexposure and will pull areas of interest out of the darkness. The GXR seems to handle this fairly well, but in the image above, the revealed area is starting to show a fair amount of granularity. Personally, I don't mind graininess/noise within reason but my gut feeling is that the same scene, if shot on the M9, could be pulled out more with a bit less graininess due to the higher resolution......Show more →
Using the GXR-M, I started to expose somewhat differently. With the M8 and the M9, I exposed the same way that I had with film in the M6, placing Zone V where I wanted it, which actually worked better with the M8 than with the M9 because the latter has a different metering pattern that didn't work well for me with wide-angle lenses. Other than that, with the GRD3 and the GXR and the A12/50 and the A12/28 camera units, I exposed with what "looked good" on the LCD, i.e. with the initial image that showed up on the LCD before it was "adjusted", if you know what I mean. All that worked fairly well.
Once I started using the GXR, I realized that I couldn't go by the look of the image on the LCD or the EVF, because the look of that image, obviously depended on the aperture that I was using: indeed, I saw that, for the first time, I had to look at the histogram. At the same time, I started using Raw Photo Processor (RPP) as my raw developer. The RPP manual is very interesting in what is states about the difference in exposing for film and for digital and about how light meters on digital cameras are set up (using film-type exposure) and how most raw developers, except RPP deal with this.
The upshot of all this is that now, in anything but bright, contrast light I "expose to the right" and in bright, contrasty light I expose for the highlights, as I would do for slide film. Hence, for the picture of which you show two version, I would have exposed more, but, then, I also may be going for a somewhat different look than you are.
I find that with the dynamic range of the GXR-M, my approach works well for me. Also, I often shoot in harsh light, as in the series below my signature here.
EDIT: BTW, some of these pictures, at least in this size JPGs on my monitor, look over-shapened, while the pictures you posted on the previous page did not — any differences in the sharpening you used?
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(and sharper too).