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timbop wrote:
Missing shots because the 5d2 couldn\'t focus, sure. \"missing\" shots because you don\'t have enough DR - sorry, but I have to call b*llsh!t. Did you \"miss\" DR shots in 2009, or did you just start missing them when someone else got a camera with wider DR?
Well, actually, as strange as it sounds, yes, I think it\'s legitimate to say that you don\'t realize what shots you \"miss\" until there is a camera out there that can get them for you. (But before I get accused of photographic incompetence, at least read my explanation a bit...)
So, very recently, I had a scenario where I was shooting exteriors for a client before dawn in really tough conditions. Weather had taken a dramatic turn for the worse, sky was overcast, rain was moving in a few hours and would be raining through both days of the shooting window I had blocked off while in town for the client. We had already rescheduled the shoot once do to a contractor problem. Putting the shoot off again until I\'d be able to schedule another trip would mean the client waiting another month, or perhaps them going with another photographer in the interim.
I began shooting with my Canon, but with the overcast skies my only hope would be to get a long exposure and push the pre-dawn clouds into a deep blue. Problem was by the time there would be enough civil twilight around to give decent lighting balance to the exterior, the clouds would be a flat gray. I started shooting with a Canon body, and while facing east I could expose long enough to pick up some blue in the sky, the several light sources around the building itself got way blown out and overpowered much of the scene, and many of the areas on or around the building itself were still pitch black. So, I switched to an A7r. I was able to underexpose the shots more, and push the exposures later in post in order to get a decent balance between the sky, the lights, and the building.
Back in the days before I had a sensor capable of this, I would\'ve had to have shot multiple longer exposures and blend in post. With the Sony sensor, I was able to shoot fewer frames because I could get the latitude I needed out of just one exposure. That meant I could actually set up more individual shots around different parts of the building. So in the end, because I was able to work faster in tough lighting conditions and a narrow time window, I was able to get a larger total number of shots than would\'ve been possible if I was shooting just the Canon.
I guess it\'s a matter of semantics whether or not producing \"fewer\" shots is the same as \"missing\" those extra shots from the other angles. In my view, knowing that technology exists that will let me produce that amount of shots in that amount of time, I tend to view it as I would\'ve otherwise missed them. And just because I couldn\'t have gotten them in 2009 doesn\'t mean I have to \"miss\" them in 2014.
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