Re: Contrast range and Nikanon or Canikon debate
- From: Jeremy Nixon <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:03:17 -0000
pixby <pixby_douglas@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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