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Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.

Started Apr 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
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Re: Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.
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Hi. The sunset mode works like this -- put the camera into AUTO mode. Point it at a sunset. If it recognizes a sunset (5 times out of 10 in my unscientific test this evening), a sun will appear in the top left of the screen and it's in sunset mode.

JPG, straight out of the camera, sunset mode:

Camera screen, sunset mode:

Sunset mode isn't that much different than regular. Here's a RAW image, saved to JPG without any changes:

And the RAW image after 30 seconds in Lightroom (overdone to make a point that you can do pretty much anything you want to a RAW sunset picture):

Bottom line -- if you want great sunset pictures, you'll have to put a modicum of work into it in post.

Cheers,

-Erik

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