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pixby wrote: The Nikon D2X produces "better" (and no I can't quantify that) Then be honest; say you "like it better". -- John P Sheehy |
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David Littlewood wrote: Even more extreme. It's not really all that uncommon a situation where you can do that. I have taken many pictures with the EC set to +2 with no blown highlights resulting. Of course, you have the issue of how to get this right in the heat of the moment. I guess this is where prior experiment and experience comes in.... It's simply a matter of estimating contrast. If you see a reflection, for example, in glass backed by something white, shooting at 0 EC is a huge mistake. If you can't compromise DOF or shutter speed by "exposing to the right" at ISO 200, then go to ISO 800 and +2; you will have a cleaner RAW capture than if you did ISO 200 and 0 EC. Same concept applies in fog, or in a field right after sunset or under heavy clouds when no sky is in the image, etc. Unfortunately, the cameras don't work in paradigms to facilitate this; I would prefer an option that behaves in such a way that when I set the camera to +1 EC, the ISO would double as well. This would reduce f-stop and shutter speed compromises when making EC decisions. The camera makers are asleep, spoonfeeding us yesterday's paradigms; and lots of people have quantized, noisy images because they trusted that the camera would give them a good exposure at low ISOs; if they do try +2 EC, they lose DOF or shutter speed and back off from the +EC electric fence.. -- John P Sheehy |
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#174
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pixby wrote:
The kill file grows, yet again. Oh the terrible, terrible, pain of being killfiled by a proven idiot! |
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Stacey wrote:
What's comical is you also called me one and I don't even shoot with a nikon! I guess anyone who doesn't use your BRAND and doesn;t blindly ignore any problems your BRAND may have has to be a "Nikon nutcase"? Like I told "pixby": if you don't like being called a Nikon Nutcase, then you should stop acting like one. (I am not holding my breath.) |
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In message , David Littlewood wrote: Even more extreme. It's not really all that uncommon a situation where you can do that. I have taken many pictures with the EC set to +2 with no blown highlights resulting. Of course, you have the issue of how to get this right in the heat of the moment. I guess this is where prior experiment and experience comes in.... It's simply a matter of estimating contrast. If you see a reflection, for example, in glass backed by something white, shooting at 0 EC is a huge mistake. If you can't compromise DOF or shutter speed by "exposing to the right" at ISO 200, then go to ISO 800 and +2; you will have a cleaner RAW capture than if you did ISO 200 and 0 EC. Same concept applies in fog, or in a field right after sunset or under heavy clouds when no sky is in the image, etc. Your are talking about measurement errors. If you take a picture in fog, afer sunset, etc. that includes a white piece of paper you still need a camera that is capable of capturing 100% reflectance. If is only when you are taking pictures of dull gray objects that you can leave out one or more stops of head room. I can't see the point of a setting that cannot record 100% reflectance. -- That was it. Done. The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make. -- Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency |
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Skip M wrote:
I was wondering about that 1/200 flash synch. Defeatured to distance it from the 1 series? Just like the EOS-3. - Len |
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Perhaps you should hold your breath, 10 minutes should do.
wrote: Like I told "pixby": if you don't like being called a Nikon Nutcase, then you should stop acting like one. (I am not holding my breath.) |
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Paul Schilter top posts like a moron:
Perhaps you should hold your breath, 10 minutes should do. Hey, you can drop dead too. No skin off my nose, luser. |
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