Re: Utility of dynamic range beyond a certain point
raminolta wrote:
Unless one limits himself to shooting in cloudy days or similar close to monotone lighting situations, better dynamic range can always benefit…
But…
… virtually any current high quality camera has plenty of DR to go well beyond shooting only on “ cloudy days or similar close to monotone lighting situations.”
The increasing DR capability of modern cameras is welcomed and useful. But that’s not the issue. Here it is the marginal differences among cameras and how they play out in real world photography. that are the question.
If some camera offers me an extra half-stop of DR and it is time to buy a new camera, then why not? But if my current camera is, say, a highDR camera from a few years back and a new camera offers an additional half-stop of DR… the difference is too small (against the backdrop of already excellent DR) to make an upgrade worthwhile, and it would virtually never make a meaningful difference to photographs.
Jun 25, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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