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18 megapixels on a 1.6x crop camera - Has Canon gone too far?
Chris Malcolm wrote:
I do a lot of pole shooting with my A350, mostly just held overhead on a monopod, but sometimes over twenty feet up on a window cleaner's extension pole. If the A380 has a remote trigger cable socket, you might find it better to use one of the cheap radio shutter triggers. Much more range and reliability than the IR ones, and no need to point it at the camera, which can sometimes be difficult if you're using both hands to hoist a big camera up on a very long pole :-) I have a cable link to a small LCD TV, so I can see the live view, but the long cable is annoying enough in combination with an awkwardly long pole that I'm going to switch to a small battery powered TV transmitter of the kind that lets you broadcast a TV image from one room to another. OK Chris, you're hired for an article in the next Photoworld mag! I have never used the old-style video out of the A350 with a conventional TV, only the HD video out from various other models with HDTV, so I didn't realise the live view was transmitted on that system the same way it is with the HD on the Nikon models, or indeed on the A380. The A500/550 has both the HDTV output (which is enhanced for review images - you get better than 640 x 480 over the HD link for reviewing or playback, but only 640 x 480 for live view and shooting menus of course) and the remote release socket. I'm forgetting I also have the D5000 (but no cable release) which will do the same as the A500/550. Benefit of the cable release, wired, is that autofocus can be actuated reliably. The wireless trigger does not appear to do a normal AF lock. But then again, having the lens set to just minus infinity and MF is probably safer. David |
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18 megapixels on a 1.6x crop camera - Has Canon gone too far?
In rec.photo.digital David Kilpatrick wrote:
Chris Malcolm wrote: I do a lot of pole shooting with my A350, mostly just held overhead on a monopod, but sometimes over twenty feet up on a window cleaner's extension pole. If the A380 has a remote trigger cable socket, you might find it better to use one of the cheap radio shutter triggers. Much more range and reliability than the IR ones, and no need to point it at the camera, which can sometimes be difficult if you're using both hands to hoist a big camera up on a very long pole :-) I have a cable link to a small LCD TV, so I can see the live view, but the long cable is annoying enough in combination with an awkwardly long pole that I'm going to switch to a small battery powered TV transmitter of the kind that lets you broadcast a TV image from one room to another. OK Chris, you're hired for an article in the next Photoworld mag! Seriously? Next one might be too soon. I'll get back to you in email. Benefit of the cable release, wired, is that autofocus can be actuated reliably. The wireless trigger does not appear to do a normal AF lock. But then again, having the lens set to just minus infinity and MF is probably safer. My cheap radio trigger has full shutter functionality, half and full press. -- Chris Malcolm |
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18 megapixels on a 1.6x crop camera - Has Canon gone too far?
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:42:43 -0500, "mcdonaldREMOVE TO ACTUALLY REACH
wrote: The main features I would like to see: 1) in two related parts ... a light histogram that actually represents the absolute raw data. The two parts are one, a histogram that shows the recently taken picture, on the LCD screen, as present, just completely unmodified, and two, a histogram, somehow displayed as an overlay in the viewfinder, that shows a histogram of what the various exposure sensors are currently reading, in real time so it changes as you move the camera view around, and as you change the exposure in manual more of change the exposure offset. I have found that CHDK's real-time "Zebra" overlay for under/over-exposed areas much more beneficial to real-world photography than any histogram. (Named as such in CHDK for the crawling diagonal stripes to highlight these areas, one of its many display options.) This type of exposure assistant allows you to see in real-time what areas of your image might be underexposed or overexposed. Many times a feature in your image doesn't need to retain any detail. And at times you actually want to blow-out certain highlights or lose detail in some shadows (i.e. silhouettes). To more clearly understand what I'm talking about, refer to: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_firm...bra_parameters Another nice feature is that you can select any color for either light or dark limit, including many subtle transparent shades so it becomes unobtrusive to focusing and framing. I personally use a light transparent red for highlights and a pale transparent blue for shadows. Allowing me to rapidly differentiate both extremes at the same time in real-time in the FOV. It also allows you to set the sensitivity threshold for highlights and shadows independently. If you like there's also an RGB Zebra mode (not shown on the CHDK Wiki pages, but appears in the downloadable PDF manuals) that will show you blown highlights on each color channel. Red, Green, and Blue appearing in their respective colors if being maxed-out. If both Red and Blue are being blown-out, then that part of your subject is displayed in Magenta. If Red and Green then in Yellow. If Green and Blue then that area is overlaid with Cyan. If all 3 color-channels are overexposed then Black is shown on that area. I find this RGB Zebra mode a bit overkill, but it does come in handy for some technical photography where color reproduction has to be as exact as possible, ensuring that you don't pin the needle on any one or more color channels. [One thing left out of the CHDK manuals. I have found that I have to set the overexposure sensitivity threshold to no lower than 16 when using RGB Zebra in order to enable all seven possible color combos to display properly. Testing this sensitivity limit on my monitor while it displayed a Granger Calibration Chart to ensure there were no gaps in the RGB blow-out limits for any combos of colors. Otherwise just the main R, G, and B, channels, and only partial channel-combos will show blow-outs with sensitivity numbers lower than 16.] A simple live-histogram only tells you that some areas of your image might be lost, not which areas of your composition. For photography, where composition is everything, a common histogram is almost useless. A histogram is great for people who do nothing but pixel-peep, edit, and use their cameras as technological conversation starters. But for real photographers it'll never show you what you really need to know, the exact parts of your subject that might be under or overexposed. If I had a choice between two identical cameras, one showing a full RGB histogram the other having a Zebra-Mode capability, I'd easily choose the one with the Zebra mode after now having years of experience with using both methods for real-world photography. Luckily, any CHDK camera has both available in many incarnations, the parameters of which you can easily and quickly modify in the setup options menu 'til your heart's content. |
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18 megapixels on a 1.6x crop camera - Has Canon gone too far?
Chris Malcolm wrote:
My cheap radio trigger has full shutter functionality, half and full press. Forgot about that - I have the Cactus trigger, works quite well. David |
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