occasional magenta/green blotches

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Raist3d
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ISO 200 won't help you here...
In reply to Kendall Helmstetter Gelner, 4 months ago

Kendall Helmstetter Gelner wrote:

Uwe Steinmueller wrote:

Thank you all.

I am not a big fan of OTR because it is easy to reach a point where you cannot recover.

If you use ISO 200 you can easily shoot +0.7 exp and not lose highlights, since you can recover almost two stops. So it's pretty safe to do so, using normal judgement as to when to increase or reduce that as a baseline.

ISO 200 won't help. It's ISO 100 under exposed and developed back up. You lose more control of the tonal range that way.  What If find it's best (applies to all cameras), is to find by spot metering at what point the data will become unrecoverable, then measure in the shot accordingly, and let the areas that you want to burn, burn.

I got pretty good at this with the Olympus e-420, 620, E-3 and Pentax Q.  You can control very well so that you avoid burns where you do not want them. Of course, if you have a really high contrast scene, you will still be losing shadows to noise when you bring them back up if you want them visible and not burn anything.

If you don't need the DR you can back off to ISO 100 to improve noise. Then you have to care more about overexposure.

The DR of ISO 100 and ISO 200 are the same. What changes is how it shifts, so you have more highlight range and less shadow range at ISO 200.  ISO 100 and ISO 200 are one of the same coin, it's just how the camera under exposes and develops back up to shift the total tonal range.

You will not gain more total DR by going to ISO 200, and you do lose more control over how to use the total DR (this again, applies to virtually all cameras that have this shift).  ISO 200 advantage is if you are in a hurry and you want to make sure you don't miss highlights and can't be methodical about watching for the highlights, then you can dial ISO 200 and not be as careful.

But then the shadows won't be as nice but that will depend on the shot.

With ISO 200 + overexposure you get more random noise (skies are slightly noisier for example), but fewer blotchy kinds of artifacts (especially because you are filling shadows a bit at time of exposure and not having to bring them up from base exposure as much).

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