Re: Official: Canon 5DS, 5DS R and 11-24mm lens released!
dhphoto wrote: Klaus Priebe wrote:
Dynamic range is a huge factor for landscape shooters.
Dynamic range really isn\'t that big a deal for landscape shooters, how do you think we managed with slide film?...
I had almost replied to Klaus\'s post, but then thought better of it.
Dynamic range is important to landscape photographers, but it isn\'t the only important thing, nor is it necessarily the most important thing. (By the way, Klaus knows landscape photography, so his comments about print quality should not be dismissed out of hand. At the same time, others who know landscape photography equally well come to a different conclusion.)
I\'m not invested in the choices that others make about cameras. There are fine reasons to shoot Nikon, to continue shooting Sony, or to use the new Canon 5DS bodies. (Or to move from DSLRs to MF.) I know excellent landscape photographers who do beautiful work who have made (or will soon make) each of these choices.
There are certainly difference among the various options — higher or lower sensor resolution, AA filter or not, mirrorless or DSLR, small or large, X amount of DR or X+ amount of DR, functionality for things outside of landscape photography, cost issues... you name it.
Frankly, I don\'t think there is one \"right\" answer to the DR question. First, I want to actually see production models of the new camera before we get too riled up about something like DR. Second, there are reasonable differences of opinion about the amount of value to assign to X amount of additional DR, and there are questions about what each photographer might give up to get it.
I think it is a bit unrealistic to generalize to all landscape photographers (either saying that DR is the most important thing to them or that it doesn\'t matter) since each will come to a different conclusion. Of course, if I\'m wrong (or right) about that, all the forum arguing in the world won\'t matter — we\'ll see fine landscape photographers (not just a few forum posters) leave Canon in droves, continue to use Canon in number similar to what they are now, or flock to Canon because they like the camera.
I\'m betting on the middle of those two options ending up being the case.
Re: Official: Canon 5DS, 5DS R and 11-24mm lens released!
dhphoto wrote: Klaus Priebe wrote:
Dynamic range is a huge factor for landscape shooters.
Dynamic range really isn\'t that big a deal for landscape shooters, how do you think we managed with slide film?...
I had almost replied to Klaus\'s post, but then thought better of it.
Dynamic range is important to landscape photographers, but it isn\'t the only important thing, nor is it necessarily the most important thing. (By the way, Klaus knows landscape photography, so his comments about print quality should not be dismissed out of hand. At the same time, others who know landscape photography equally well come to a different conclusion.)
I\'m not invested in the choices that others make about cameras. There are fine reasons to shoot Nikon, to continue shooting Sony, or to use the new Canon 5DS bodies. I know excellent landscape photographers who do beautiful work who have made (or will soon make) each of these choices.
There are certainly difference among the various options — higher or lower sensor resolution, AA filter or not, mirrorless or DSLR, small or large, X amount of DR or X+ amount of DR, functionality for things outside of landscape photography, cost issues... you name it.
Frankly, I don\'t think there is one \"right\" answer to the DR question. First, I want to actually see production models of the new camera before we get too riled up about something like DR. Second, there are reasonable differences of opinion about the amount of value to assign to X amount of additional DR, and there are questions about what each photographer might give up to get it.
I think it is a bit unrealistic to generalize to all landscape photographers (either saying that DR is the most important thing to them or that it doesn\'t matter) since each will come to a different conclusion. Of course, if I\'m wrong (or right) about that, all the forum arguing in the world won\'t matter — we\'ll see fine landscape photographers (not just a few forum posters) leave Canon in droves, continue to use Canon in number similar to what they are now, or flock to Canon because they like the camera.
I\'m betting on the middle of those two options ending up being the case.
Re: Official: Canon 5DS, 5DS R and 11-24mm lens released!
dhphoto wrote: Klaus Priebe wrote:
Dynamic range is a huge factor for landscape shooters.
Dynamic range really isn\'t that big a deal for landscape shooters, how do you think we managed with slide film?...
I had almost replied to Klaus\'s post, but then thought better of it.
Dynamic range is important to landscape photographers, but it isn\'t the only important thing, nor is it necessarily the most important thing. (By the way, Klaus knows landscape photography, so his comments about print quality should not be dismissed out of hand.)
I\'m not invested in the choices that others make about cameras. There are fine reasons to shoot Nikon, to continue shooting Sony, or to use the new Canon 5DS bodies. I know excellent landscape photographers who do beautiful work who have made (or will soon make) each of these choices.
There are certainly difference among the various options — higher or lower sensor resolution, AA filter or not, mirrorless or DSLR, small or large, X amount of DR or X+ amount of DR, functionality for things outside of landscape photography, cost issues... you name it.
Frankly, I don\'t think there is one \"right\" answer to the DR question. First, I want to actually see production models of the new camera before we get too riled up about something like DR. Second, there are reasonable differences of opinion about the amount of value to assign to X amount of additional DR, and there are questions about what each photographer might give up to get it.
I think it is a bit unrealistic to generalize to all landscape photographers (either saying that DR is the most important thing to them or that it doesn\'t matter) since each will come to a different conclusion. Of course, if I\'m wrong (or right) about that, all the forum arguing in the world won\'t matter — we\'ll see fine landscape photographers (not just a few forum posters) leave Canon in droves, continue to use Canon in number similar to what they are now, or flock to Canon because they like the camera.
I\'m betting on the middle of those two options ending up being the case.
YMMV,
Dan
Feb 06, 2015 at 11:09 AM
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