5D3 shooting with in camera HDR

[Tony Jay]

...does D800 and 5D3 have the TIFF option?

5D3 generates a JPEG when using the in camera HDR function - not helpful to professionals or enthusiasts at all unless they are press photographers or the like.

Regards

Tony Jay

[BernardLanguillier]

I suppose all new cameras (d4. D800, 5D3, have basically the same system. I shot TIFF, by the way, does D800 and 5D3 have the TIFF option?

Just tried on the D800, yes it works with TIFF also.

Cheers,
Bernard

[JohnBrew]

Just tried on the D800, yes it works with TIFF also.

Cheers,
Bernard

Good to hear. I'm not about to shoot anything in JPEG.

[Tony Jay]

Well at least Nikon users get the advantage of a TIFF file to play with in post-processing then!

Unfortunately, the HDR feature in the 5D3 is IMHO a bit of a gimmick, however who knows what will happen in the future.

Regards

Tony Jay

[Isaac]

It is also essentially tone mapping and not true HDR.

Was that a typo? Seems more likely that it's not tone mapping but exposure blending?

[Bart_van_der_Wolf]

5D3 generates a JPEG when using the in camera HDR function - not helpful to professionals or enthusiasts at all unless they are press photographers or the like.

Or when used as a luminosity mask when shooting Raw+JPEG of the same scene ...

Cheers,
Bart

[Petrus]

Not directly connected to the original subject, but I tested the HDR feature on the D800 for portraits today. The setup was two Kino Flo 400 Diva-lites giving 1/300 at f:11 with 640 ISO with 85mm Nikkor T/S, camera was on tripod. Only one shot out of 10 was totally sharp, in all other shots the model had moved just slightly during that 2/10 of a second or so. In this context slightly means more than 1/3 of a thickness of an eyelash. Head needs to be clamped if shooting HDR (for pixel peepers at least)...