If you're doing street photography at night, it's always a matter of
blown highlights and no shadow detail. If the data is in the capture,
either digital or film, then there's a way to get it into a print. If
it's not, then you have to cheat.
On 10/14/2011 2:09 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 14/10/2011 10:47 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
That kind of depends on the film. I believe that slide film has a
narrower DR than even straight from camera Jpegs. But I don't have any
hard numbers on that.
Last time I checked (which was something like 20 years ago), slide
film was 5-6 stops, colour print film was close to 10 stops (Reala),
there was Agfa Ultra that was more like slide film that way, so there
was variance, B&W film was similar to colour print film if you lab
processed it, but it was possible to get 12-14 stops out of it.
I think the K5 boasts a 14 stop DR at ISO 80, so it's going to be
close to what film is able to do in a single exposure, and with HDR,
that range can be opened up significantly, to over 20 stops if required.
Consider though, that the vast majority of photographable scenes fall
into a range of closer to 6-8 stops, and the need for really wide DR
tends to be something more important to marketing people than
photographers.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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