> On Mar 11, 2020, at 4:10 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's not the cost of storage, it's the amount of time spent in reviewing > multiple images!
Part of that is a workflow question. I’ve developed a “successive approximations” workflow that helps me quickly weed down even a lot of photos to a manageable number. > Larry, I don't agree with your original statement that early Pentax cameras > were bad at metering, the vast majority of the images I shot with my *ist-D > did not need much, if any, exposure adjustment in PP. I have always shot raw > rather than jpeg in order to have the capability of adjusting if needed, so > maybe that helps: I've also normally used spot-metering in order to ensure > that the area I am most interested in is correctly exposed. IIRC, the adage > when shooting slides was "Take care of the highlights and the shadows will > look after themselves", and I have a feeling that also applies to digital > photography. Generally, trying to bring down highlights does not work well at > all, whereas one can usually lift shadows acceptably. I can say that mine were bad at metering, but that might have been the type of shooting I was doing. A lot of it was low light, high dynamic range. Most of my earlier cameras (until the K-5) had katzeye screens which did wonders for compensating for the lousy autofocus, but which missed up auto metering. I have found that if I’m not careful with watching the histograms, or at least bracketing then I am guaranteed to lose at least an annoying percentage of shots due to blown out highlights. My standard has become bracketing two shots, 0/-2 with the -2 being a safety shot in case of bad highlights. I find that shooting raw, bracketing less than two stops (I may also do +/- 2 or +/- 1.7 on a three frame bracket) doesn’t really accomplish enough. Sometimes, if I want a set burst of shots, I’ll set my camera for bracketing 1/3 stop because that doesn’t make much difference on the exposure for three frames, and not too terribly much even for five frames, it’d be nice to be able to bracket 2,3 or 5 frames with 0ev, just to get a set burst. > > > John in Brisbane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2020 3:16 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Exposure techniques > > Storage is down to about $25 per terabyte, storage isn't much of a problem > > On March 11, 2020 10:01:51 AM PDT, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you shoot RAW, much more tonal data is preserved. Nothing is >> clipped. >> Incorrectly exposed images can usually be brought up in PP. In fact >> you do edit the unwanted images on the camera. If you shoot RAW, there >> is only one image to edit, albeit on the computer. I agree that if you >> discard the unwanted imaged in the camera there won't be a storage >> problem. If you use a K1, the stored images are huge compared to a K5. >> >> Alan C >> >> On 11-Mar-20 03:32 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: >>> On 3/11/2020 5:54 AM, Alan C wrote: >>> >>>> Everything you say is probably quite true but I find it is easy >>>> enough to do any corrections at the PP stage so I don't get too >>>> carried away with the technicalities. >>> >>> PP cannot correct clipping - once data is clipped it is gone. >>> >>>> Bracketing everything is a solution but it must shorten the life of >>>> the camera & triples the editing process, not to mention the storage >> >>>> space needed. >>> >>> Storage is cheap compared to glass. I do fine with 64 gb because I >>> very seldom shoot video. Bracketing does not require more editing - >>> after shooting I look at the BW and color histograms in the camera >> and >>> keep only the best (and not clipped) images. >>> >>> I try to do as little as possible in post - I prefer to get the best >>> image in camera. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Larry Colen [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
