Thanks, Degrub. When I walk the river in the morning I normally leave my Nikons behind and grab my Olympus Pen-F. There are several reasons for that, but the main one is that the Pen has a monitor I can flip out and position for either horizontal or vertical framing when I hold the camera low. The Pen is half-frame, but as you can see in this picture, unless you’re going for wall-sized prints you plan to sell to banks the result is okay.
I’ve been told for ages that I should shoot at the lowest possible ISO, but I’ve been shooting digital for twenty years – since the Casio QV-3000EX first came out -- the first digital camera with a sensor that would let you get usable pictures without a darkroom. What I’ve found is that unless I’m shooting off a tripod using an external release I’m best off letting the camera choose an ISO. Occasionally I end up with more noise than I’d like, especially at night, but DxO’s PhotoLab usually can overcome that problem.
In this case, the camera chose ISO 1000, so what I got was a bit less than full dynamic range. But I haven’t shot anything but raw for at least fifteen years, and since everything’s there, some judicial post-processing usually can make up for small shortcomings.
People get all cranked up about equipment and technique, but as HCB said, “Photographing is nothing. Looking is everything.”
