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Herb Chong wrote:
i have some examples (not taken with my *istD) where i have pulled about 6 stops more range out of a single image than the unmodified image was showing. blending together a sequence of 6 exposures, each 1 stop apart, shows about the same contrast as the manipulated single image. the color isn't as good in the shadows as blending 6 exposures, but not bad. i'd like to see the film guys try getting 10 or so stops of dynamic range onto any single exposure with good contrast. a digital sensor with 12 bits/pixel is by definition able to record 12 stops of dynamic range. the deepest shadows are not going to be great, but not great is better than not at all.
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Digital Photography
Seriously the advent of digital capture has spurned on the imaging
software
developers to produce a whole array of tools that weren't available in the past. One type of which are the extended contrast tools which create HDR images. Using this technology often an image can be shot which would have
been
impossible using film due to extremes of contrast. There are some
occasions
where the light will never be "right", this technology (which obviously
can now
be used to extend and compress the contrast range of digitized film
images)
provides a whole new set of opportunities to the thinking photographer.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com
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