Interesting video Rob. Thanks for sharing.

On 13 December 2013 17:54, Robert William Hutton <r...@helms-deep.net> wrote:

> On 13/12/13 16:51, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
> > My experience: jpgs, from my Canon camera, do not fully reflect reality
> > anyway, they are only the manufacturers 'best guess' and in many
>
> Agreed, I haven't shot a jpg in years, because I'm not interested in
> reality, but what I saw (or perceived) in the scene, which almost never
> matches reality.  Like the esteemed Ansel Adams.
>
> You have to realise that there are simply so many limitations with
> photography when it comes to rendering a scene anything like how a human
> would, in fact it's a fundamentally different thing.  A photo is an
> instant in time, frozen.  The dynamic range of a digital photo is tiny
> compared to the human eye, and the dynamic range of photographic paper
> even tinier[1].
>
> Anyway, I like the colour I can get from my RAWs so much more that I
> really couldn't give two hoots what the JPG would have looked like.
>
> [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xanb3J81EA
>
> ^ That's a technical lecture on the Ansel Adams zone system (among other
> things) which is brilliant at describing dynamic range if you have the
> patience to sit through it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>
>
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