5D3 in-camera HDR
jmphotocraft
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and a quick test:
normal single shot, changed to Landscape picture style, saturation +1, contrast -2 in DPP:
HDR Art Vivid
HDR Art Standard
all hand held.
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An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
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The top-most image is very pleasing.
Thanks for the test.
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Admittedly, the Canon HDR option beats the snot out of Nikon's 2-shot, 3-stop limited functionality. For a company that has had such advanced bracketing options for years, I'm disappointed in Nikon's HDR feature and very impressed by Canon's...
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You do realize this is literally Artificial Intelligence at work, right? The camera has to decide what should look like what, and locate the edges and boundaries of all objects in the scene, and then align the 3 shots. I'm surprised it doesn't take 10 seconds and I'm amazed there aren't crazy halos around everything, especially the tree branches.
I've never been a fan of HDR, so I never got good at making them in CS5, but even just "pushing the button" and accepting all defaults takes longer than the camera does, and usually looks like crap. So the fact that these are actually pleasing really impresses me.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
I am indeed very impressed by the outcome. I just wish that they could do the JPG creation in the background while I fill up the buffer with another 3-6 frames. The buffer can hold 9 mRAW frames before slowing, right? If I keep the HDR's to 3 shots.....Oh well...
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This is just a guess though, but I've done image processing stuff in the past and memory bandwidth usually turns out to be the limiting factor.
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single shot:
HDR Art-Vivid:
I was a staunch member of the HDR Hate Club, but I'm finding this feature very useful. It is officially in my bag of tricks.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
I think its because people over do it so much. This camera just gets the tones in, does it right, and then leaves the creative up to the user. I didn't like HDR much before but this just makes things so easy, quick, and smooth, and is a simple means for technical correction that works really really well
The original was the Standard picture style, everything at the defaults. Still, the in-cam hdr has merit.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
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If they did that, then a lot of people wouldn't have any electrical power.
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...but, in the movie Super 8, the lines did disappear, at 0:44:00 in. So, maybe.
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An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
5D2/1D MkII N/40D and a couple bits of glass.
The AF doesn't suck either.
An "accurate" reproduction of a scene and a good photograph are often two different things.
Yes, quite different Although some more than others. Think of it as a technical correction rather than an artistic choice. For me, HDR mode is a very quick means to correct a technical problem of a ~14 stop limit dynamic range, and expanding it to 20 stops instead. There's a fair share of scenes that benefit from a 6 stop dynamic range boost. You're expanding the highlight and shadow range by 8 times more light on each side of the histrogram, which I'll take any day for a landscape!
As for the photos I posted, SOOC, mucked shadows and blown highlights (other than the sky) would be everywhere. It was pretty dim in that forest other than the light streaks hitting the leaves. Also, the sunbeam in that one shot would not be as discernable or it would be drowned and blown out by flare from overexposure where the sun is actually showing. So, it captures a much wider ranger of highlights you can't recover in ACR later, and de-noises shadows that would otherwise look pretty crappy. It can make up for Canons noisy shadow performance with their sensors, lol.
Indeed by far THIS is the one feature that I find as a "trigger puller" for purchasing the mk3.
I am indeed very impressed by the HDR mode though!
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Or bury them, as per UK ... for local purposes, anyway - still got national grid pylons /lines etc.
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Straight out of the camera:
In-camera HDR, Art-Vivid, auto bracketing:
Single shot (same as the first), converted in DPP with Landscape picture style, contrast -2, shadows +2, saturation +1:
I'd still say the in-cam HDR shot is "better", and it's worth taking one in any contrasty situation, but it's nice to know you can get most of the way there with a single shot.
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