Well, here is my two centavos. To begin with, my camera, being mirrorless has live histogram feature. It is necessary to look up on the internet the specific settings for the JPEG engine, because as I gather, the histogram is based on what JPEG engine computes and not on what the sensor sees. Yet, having done that, I generally tend to get consistent exposures most of the time. It also gives me ability to not just apply exposure compensation and hope it goes well, but rather see the actual effect on the live histogram.
Having said that, m43 sensors are small and their dynamic range is not as good as that of their bigger counterparts. Thanks to our meeting, I have started to use the same bracketing technique you were using. Here are some examples: https://web.500px.com/photo/1012223898/Close-encounter-of-pink-kind-by-Boris-Liberman/ https://web.500px.com/photo/1012152477/This-season-once-more-by-Boris-Liberman <https://500px.com/photo/1012152477/This-season-once-more-by-Boris-Liberman> / https://web.500px.com/photo/1011928412/Strings-of-life-by-Boris-Liberman/ And actual Pentax content, thank you again, Larry: https://web.500px.com/photo/1011807239/The-Cove-by-Boris-Liberman/ If I did not tell you that all these are HDRs, I think you wouldn't have noticed. I am using my LR 6.14 to do the merging, and I am extremely happy with the results. For most types of my photography, I would think that the bracketing (at 2 Ev in each direction) would become my default mode of operation. The rapid fire mode of EM1 is extremely fast, it is almost imperceptible that it took 3 frames and not just 1. Speaking of general quality of exposure, being on m43 for few years now, I kind of got used to the slight noise. And what bothers me more is rather the quality of color - the degree of it being true to life. Here I am very happy with my little sensor. Boris On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:40 PM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m curious how people go about setting and checking exposure. My early > pentax DSLRs were really bad at metering, so I just got in the habit of > always checking the histogram. Blownout highlights really annoy me. I > also ran into an interesting metering issue with flowers and other > saturated colors, in that the metering isn’t color sensitive so that I’d > blow out one or two of the channels (usually red) while everything else had > plenty of lattitude. > > I have gotten to the point that if I’m not shooting action and running up > against the K-1s miserable buffering, I’ll just bracket nominal and under > by a couple of stops for safety, and not having to worry about it. Most of > the time the dynamic range on the later sensors is so good, that running a > bit under on the raw images is no problem at all. > > How do other people deal with this? > > > -- > 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. > -- Boris -- 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.
