One shot HDR with the Fuji S5

[eric.schmiedl]

Details are over here:
http://ericschmiedl.com/blog/?p=25

Basically, the Fuji S5 stores dynamic range information in the RAW file to rival what you can get by HDR'ing three separate shots with a D200. (each shot two stops over the previous one.)

The color rendering is also MUCH better 🙂

 

[jl-lb.ms]

Very nice! How are you combining the separate images? Are you compositing them by hand?

 

[amateriat]

I think the point here is that Fuji sort of obviates the need to make those major HDR "moves" by essentially automating the process.

Leave it to a manufacturer of film to come up with a digital solution that makes the most of the technology at hand. I'm not into dSLRs at all, but I have a lot of respect for Fuji's efforts in this area.


- Barrett

 

[sienarot]

Leave it to a manufacturer of film to come up with a digital solution that makes the most of the technology at hand. I'm not into dSLRs at all, but I have a lot of respect for Fuji's efforts in this area.


- Barrett

I completely agree. All my recreational shooting is done on film, but I absolutely love Fuji's progress with their digital bodies. Their cameras handle noise at high ISOs very well and their S5 has fantastic dynamic range. With DSLRs, I'm a Canon shooter, but if Fuji ever came out with a body that uses a full frame sensor, I'd gladly sell all my Canon gear and switch over to Nikon glass with a Fuji body (I've been very unhappy with Canon's marketing practices). Plus, they're still very adamant about their support with film.

Fuji rocks.

 

[AusDLK]

I love my S5 Pro.

It's proving to be more difficult then I thought it would be whenever I switch back to my film rangefinders...

My last five or so PAW images have all been taken with the S5 Pro.

 

[amateriat]

Dave: I can imagine.

But I really can't deal that well with SLRs anymore, film-based or otherwise. If Fuji stuffed this system into an RF of some sort, as-is, it would start a commotion; if they made a full-frame version thereof – clearing most, if not all, of the RF-related issues regarding FF digital sensors, you'd have a riot on the level of the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

But it's okay. I have a lot of film shooting to do before that happens...


- Barrett

 

[eric.schmiedl]

Very nice! How are you combining the separate images? Are you compositing them by hand?

No, I just use the contrast/brightness/recovery/fill light/exposure sliders in Adobe Camera Raw. ACR happens to be the software that can get the most highlight information out of Fuji raw files...