Ross Martin wrote: RoamingScott wrote:
As usual, the only people that care about DR enough to post about ceaselessly it never produce examples of the cameras in question falling short in tough conditions.
It's really easy to see through the schtick.
I can geek out on photo specs at times including DR numbers, like any good photo forum nerd but the truth is I have not been able to see any problems in actual real-world shooting of cameras from many different brands over the years that have different DR numbers. The example here is from the Z9 and I intentionally and massively underexposed to protect the highlights, then pulled up exposure/shadows in Lightroom by 3 stops, and to me it looks good.
Nice image! A great candidate for focus stacking if one can act fast. Although f22 did the job pretty well I bet that either the foreground or the mountain line look a bit soft on a larger print, possibly both if you used traditional hyperfolcal distance.
When I try to capture such images on tripod with a lens prone to flaring such as the 24-120mm I often capture 2 images, one as is, one with my hand masking the sun to reduce/eliminate flare effects outside the sun stars. Overlaying them in PS and masking out the flare using the second image takes a few seconds.
Ross Martin wrote: RoamingScott wrote:
As usual, the only people that care about DR enough to post about ceaselessly it never produce examples of the cameras in question falling short in tough conditions.
It's really easy to see through the schtick.
I can geek out on photo specs at times including DR numbers, like any good photo forum nerd but the truth is I have not been able to see any problems in actual real-world shooting of cameras from many different brands over the years that have different DR numbers. The example here is from the Z9 and I intentionally and massively underexposed to protect the highlights, then pulled up exposure/shadows in Lightroom by 3 stops, and to me it looks good.
Nice image! A great candidate for focus stacking if one can act fast although f22 did the job pretty well.
When I try to capture such images on tripod with a lens prone to flaring such as the 24-120mm I often capture 2 images, one as is, one with my hand masking the sun to reduce/eliminate flare effects outside the sun stars. Overlaying them in PS and masking out the flare using the second image takes a few seconds.
Cheers,
Bernard
Oct 06, 2025 at 07:22 PM
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but the truth is I have not been able to see any problems in actual real-world shooting of cameras from many different brands over the years that have different DR numbers. The example here is from the Z9 and I intentionally and massively underexposed to protect the highlights, then pulled up exposure/shadows in Lightroom by 3 stops, and to me it looks good.