Re: Interesting Reference Data on Dynamic Range - 5dsr
OntheRez wrote:
Dan, your summary fits fairly well with what I\'ve been concluding...
Great photography can be and is made on a huge variety of gear. It is useful and interesting to consider real differences among products — one reason I follow FM and not just the Canon forum — but it is easy to be misled into thinking that certain differences are far, far more consequential than they really are.
Regarding the two photographs shown above, with the fairly radical levels of post-processing exhibited, I think we are evaluating the nature of that post-processing interpretation as much as or more than the qualities of the respective cameras. It is hard to evaluate things such as \"naturalness\" and so forth when the files have been pushed to this extreme. (Though it is interesting to be reminded just how far away from the original capture a file can be pushed with extreme post processing approaches. And, of course, I do not reject significant work in post where it is appropriate and effective.)
Re: Interesting Reference Data on Dynamic Range - 5dsr
OntheRez wrote:
Dan, your summary fits fairly well with what I\'ve been concluding...
Great photography can be and is made on a huge variety of gear. It is useful and interesting to consider real differences among products — one reason I follow FM and not just the Canon forum — but it is easy to become deluded into thinking that certain differences are far, far more consequential than they really are.
Regarding the two photographs shown above, with the fairly radical levels of post-processing exhibited, I think we are evaluating the nature of that post-processing interpretation as much as or more than the qualities of the respective cameras. It is hard to evaluate things such as \"naturalness\" and so forth when the files have been pushed to this extreme. (Though it is interesting to be reminded just how far away from the original capture a file can be pushed with extreme post processing approaches. And, of course, I do not reject significant work in post where it is appropriate and effective.)
Re: Interesting Reference Data on Dynamic Range - 5dsr
Great photography can be and is made on a huge variety of gear. It is useful and interesting to consider real differences among products — one reason I follow FM and not just the Canon forum — but it is easy to become deluded into thinking that certain differences are far, far more consequential than they really are.
Regarding the two photographs shown above, with the fairly radical levels of post-processing exhibited, I think we are evaluating the nature of that post-processing interpretation as much as or more than the qualities of the respective cameras. It is hard to evaluate things such as \"naturalness\" and so forth when the files have been pushed to this extreme. (Though it is interesting to be reminded just how far away from the original capture a file can be pushed with extreme post processing approaches.)
Dan
Aug 16, 2015 at 10:16 AM
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