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Contrast range and Nikanon or Canikon debate
From a Photographers point of view, a camera is just a tool. The
sharper the chisel, the neater the cut, so to speak. PhotoShop is the workbench we put our images on to craft them after we harvest the raw materials. OK... So I have a bunch of Canon gear and a lone Nikon camera with just one lens. I predominately shoot weddings but do a lot of landscapes too. One thing I know is that Photoshop has a couple of stops of additional contrast range available through it's "shadow/highlights" filter which goes a long way towards evening up the disadvantage DSLRs have when compared to the range of film. I can always find some detail in black trousers against a white dress with Photoshop from my 20D and 1D files. I don't like Canon's idea of skin tones but that's why I bought a Nikon a few weeks ago. So here's one of the things I have found when comparing the two... I reckon Nikon's new 'bayer' sensor doesn't have as wide a contrast range as the Canon gives me, having regard for the Photoshop recovery I use. Magnificent in ever way but I'm not able (after 2 weeks of trying) to expand the contrast range as far as I can from a Canon image by using Photoshop after the shoot. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Douglas, You never really make it on the 'net until you get your own personal Troll. Mine's called Chrlz. Don't feed him, he bites! |
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pixby wrote:
So here's one of the things I have found when comparing the two... I reckon Nikon's new 'bayer' sensor doesn't have as wide a contrast range as the Canon gives me, having regard for the Photoshop recovery I use. Magnificent in ever way but I'm not able (after 2 weeks of trying) to expand the contrast range as far as I can from a Canon image by using Photoshop after the shoot. Has anyone else noticed this? Are you trying to pull it out in the RAW conversion, or in Photoshop proper? If the latter, you're at the mercy of whatever you did in the RAW conversion step, which may or may not have clipped your shadow detail away. If it did, then it's gone, and that's it. If you're shooting to JPEG, well, don't do that. You want to be doing an adjustment like that in Camera Raw, where you have access to everything the camera recorded. Also, if the trousers are black, err on the side of overexposure by a third or two-thirds of a stop; yeah, I know that's supposed to be wrong, but you'll be surprised and delighted to see just how much highlight detail the thing records and how much headroom you've got. Provided you're using *uncompressed* RAW; compressed RAW achieves the compression by losing detail in the highlights. Don't try this with a D70. The difference is significant. -- Jeremy | |
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pixby wrote: So here's one of the things I have found when comparing the two... I reckon Nikon's new 'bayer' sensor doesn't have as wide a contrast range as the Canon gives me, having regard for the Photoshop recovery I use. Magnificent in ever way but I'm not able (after 2 weeks of trying) to expand the contrast range as far as I can from a Canon image by using Photoshop after the shoot. Has anyone else noticed this? The limiting factor is going to be the noise level, and the difference between the channels in sensitivity. Some of the Nikon models differ by almost a stop and a half between RAW color channels. -- John P Sheehy |
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pixby wrote: The main area I've had trouble with is black and dark blue clothing. Deep shadows have some detail I can recover although it appears as you say, a noise factor as to how much can be recovered. Where are the highlights? Have you tried with lower-than-stated exposure indices? -- John P Sheehy |
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