x100s - holy moley pt 2

[porktaco]

this is a phenomenally sweet little camera. sharp, fast, easy. most of these are jpeg with minimal modification.

 

[porktaco]

 

[helen.HH]

sharp indeed, ...looks like loads of Fun

 

[N.delaRua]

Want. I need to start a secret fund.

 

[redisburning]

I like the pictures themselves less than your photographs.

ie, I like your compositions enough and while I think color handling and accutance of the camera is nice tbh I would use words like "poor" to describe the lattitude of the sensor Im seeing in these shots.

 

[porktaco]

i'll take that as a compliment 🙂 thank you.

 

[stillshunter]

Absolutely love this!!!!

Absolutely love this!!!!

...and if I didn't already own an X100s of my own, I'd buy the camera just so I could achieve this goodness.

"Awesomeness" - Well said of a camera that well deserves it.

 

[willie_901]

I like the pictures themselves less than your photographs.

ie, I like your compositions enough and while I think color handling and accutance of the camera is nice tbh I would use words like "poor" to describe the lattitude of the sensor Im seeing in these shots.

Sensors don't have latitude. What are you trying to say?

 

[back alley]

pics are too big to look at enjoyably...

 

[redisburning]

Sensors don't have latitude. What are you trying to say?

do you have a better term for the ability to handle relatively more exposed areas without clipping to total white?

and before you say dynamic range, that refers to signal to noise, not the above, which has traditionally been defined as exposure latitude.

 

[splitimageview]

These are simply jpegs, displayed in a browser. Suitable for photographic, but hardly technical, critique. Good work here. 🙂

 

[stillshunter]

Wow lesson learned about sharing a little something of the joy you derive from your gear. What the ???? Just over the page you hear regulars complaining about the incessant gear talk. Then here we see someone willing to simply share, quite openly, some personal moments and WHAM!!!!

Holy moley indeed! 😱

 

[Bingley]

I enjoyed the photos very much, and envy the OP's houseboating holiday. The joy comes through. Nicely captured.

 

[akptc]

Thank you for posting, I enjoyed your photos. One step closer to adding the x100s to my aging x100 😀

 

[btgc]

Obviously intented for wide screens only. While world is migrating, such threads have to include "widescreens only" in their names 🙂

As for camera, it's great when a piece of gear bonds into hand and serves as extension of eye. jpeg/raw, DR and all the rest is for serious people, photographers just make pictures to be seen.

 

[willie_901]

do you have a better term for the ability to handle relatively more exposed areas without clipping to total white?

and before you say dynamic range, that refers to signal to noise, not the above, which has traditionally been defined as exposure latitude.

I do not have a better term. Because there is no such thing as latitude in the camera data stream.

Sensors don't work like you seem to imagine they work. Highlight detail is lost when the sensor is overexposed or under exposed. If the sensor is over exposed, information about the brightest regions is not recorded. When the sensor is significantly underexposed, the relative signals for all the sensor sites is compressed which reduces the total information content.

The ability to reproduce highlights is the responsibility of the photographer. First they have to avoid exceeding the full-well capacity of the sensor while recording as much signal as possible. Second, they have to pay attention to luminance for that region of the histogram. Subtle selective adjustments to the highlight regions during raw rendering will produce the latitude you describe.

 

[N.delaRua]

Can we stop the mumbo jumbo and just enjoy the contribution of the photographer?

Does every thread have to devolve into arguments over technical definitions?

I don't care about the DR and pixel level acuity, I enjoyed the images.


P.S. For those not able to view the images because of width, just press Ctrl+- to zoom out until you can view the whole page and to restore your orginal perspective Ctrl + Just thought that might be helpful.

 

[redisburning]

Sensors don't work like you seem to imagine they work. Highlight detail is lost when the sensor is overexposed or under exposed.

I shoot a backlit subject in open shade with a directly lit background (common in the above I might add). I have the subject hold a grey card and spot meter it at 18% gray (or slightly darker, depending on your definition of ideal exposure). unfortunately this causes me to lose highlight detail in the background.

I shoot the same subject, but I have someone in the directly lit area hold my gray card and now I meter for that. This causes my directly lit area to be exposed such that the card is 18% gray, but now I have lost shadow detail in my subject.

which is correct?

how about a camera that can shoot the first and not blow out the highlights in the background.

I understand that digital capture has a very straight response as opposed to the toe and shoulder of film, but clearly some cameras simply have more headroom. that ought to be called something.

I checked google, it says

"Exposure latitude is the extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result"

well, why is this not the most applicable term, exactly? you have an overexposed background that is unattractive with a "correctly" exposed subject.

 

[N.delaRua]

Its a vacation.... no one is going to hold a freaking grey card.

 

[Matus]

Those are some excellent vacation photographs - you did a great job (and the camera had its part there too).

Yes, a bit too large for my 13" screen, but still great 🙂