mttran wrote: macrobild wrote: saneproduction wrote:
We always hear about the d800 sensor is amazing for shadow recovery, but can anyone post some images that show the real world use and why the 5dIII is not good enough? Here is a random high contrast shot that I adjusted the raw on (note that I am on my surface pro and have not calibrated the display yet). How much more range do I really need? Would it really improve things?
the question is wrong.
whenever the subject/motive has a wide, large dynamic range you can expose the Nikon D800 after the highlight to get this highlights reproduced without any clipping and with a full color reproduction,if there are also are highlights more than 4 stop above middle grey you can under expose to get this highlights reproduced.
At the same time you are under exposing you are also moving middle grey down towards lower levels/ shadows
and you must adjust the motive with for example curves etc etc.
With Nikon d800 you have at least 2 stops more DR from middle grey and down in to lowest levels compared to Canon, when you then are adjusting the motive this will shows in the the shadows and also in shadows-up against middle grey = noise from Canon and patter noise and also banding.
Here is sun set with one of my Canon 5dmk2 and D800
Both cameras identical exposed and the same handling in camera raw
well , it says little bit what you can do or not, and where noise, pattern noise and banding reduces the potential for image processing in the shadows up against middle grey in a contrasty motive
Feb 22, 2013 at 06:29 PM
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