Hi, could you use a stop more dynamic range, live view?
Cheers,
Bart
No.
I'd like a better, more film like look, less roll your own in post and really really really like to be able to point a camera into the sun with the subject in the foreground and get that beautiful lens flare film produced rather than the abrupt cut off of digital and most would call that more dynamic range, I think it's just the way digital works, except for the RED.
My RED's will do that, allow me to shoot with that soft lens flare and look very pretty, but overall when it comes to dynamic range, it's the role of a professional to learn how to control it with lighting, positioning, shooting at the right moment in the right place.
It seems to me that people and the camera makers want to find a machine that anyone can point in a scene, regardless of the ratios, take a snap and hold everything, but that's not how crafted photography works and having that ability doesn't change anything in my life.
That's why I showed work from these old cameras. By the charts, blogs, sales messages you'd think if you didn't buy the latest camera you couldn't make a photograph worth showing and that's so very far from reality.
BTW: With the REDs that truly have 14 stops of useable data, we crush the heck out of them in post to give a film like look. Does having it help . . . sometimes, but usually not.
IMO
BC
P.S. I have a friend that's financially well off and took a holiday with his spouse. He photographed her, mostly backlit and he should have really used a fill card because her head was blown away on 1/2 of the images.
He asked me if I could fix them and I had two retouch teams, then I put weeks into these photographs rebuilding them piece by piece and btw: he had the latest and greatest cameras made as to him, what most of us spend on cameras he finds laying around in the creases of his sofa.
Bottom line . . . we saved the images, they were presentable enough to run in world publication, but he could have shot them with my old 1ds, or a canon 5d, heck maybe an i phone and the results would have been the same. Those claimed 12 stops didn't do anything, neither would 14, though at the time he was positive it would.
Funny thing is, he was holding 75 grand of cameras, but had he just bought one sheet of foam core or a 12' umbrella and paid some kid 200 bucks to hold it he would have had stunning images, because the setting, composition and subject were exceptional.
Instead, he believed the camera brochure.
Sometimes it takes just a little more thought, a lot less money.