Disaster in Red

Jay247 said:

I've only just got my 1Ds a week ago, but when I took her out for a
test drive in Green Park the other day, I discovered that the
colour red is a disaster! Details are clipped and gone forever, and
the saturation in the reds seems a bit much (granted, I've used
matrix 2 - but it happens on other settings as well). Is it just
me? Have I not set the magic CF/PF or something? Or is there even
something wrong with my camera? Anyone familiar with the phenomenon?

Here's what shocked me:



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(100% crop)

The flowers are just across from Buckingham Palace and they
certainly didn't look like in my pictures! I've had a similar
problem with my old Sony F707, which has luckily been rectified to
a great deal on the F717.

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Jay247 said:

I've only just got my 1Ds a week ago, but when I took her out for a
test drive in Green Park the other day, I discovered that the
colour red is a disaster! Details are clipped and gone forever, and
the saturation in the reds seems a bit much (granted, I've used
matrix 2 - but it happens on other settings as well). Is it just
me? Have I not set the magic CF/PF or something? Or is there even
something wrong with my camera? Anyone familiar with the phenomenon?

Here's what shocked me:



(resize)



(100% crop)

The flowers are just across from Buckingham Palace and they
certainly didn't look like in my pictures! I've had a similar
problem with my old Sony F707, which has luckily been rectified to
a great deal on the F717.

Click to expand...

Steven Noyes said:

Steven

Jay247 said:

I've only just got my 1Ds a week ago, but when I took her out for a
test drive in Green Park the other day, I discovered that the
colour red is a disaster! Details are clipped and gone forever, and
the saturation in the reds seems a bit much (granted, I've used
matrix 2 - but it happens on other settings as well). Is it just
me? Have I not set the magic CF/PF or something? Or is there even
something wrong with my camera? Anyone familiar with the phenomenon?

Here's what shocked me:



(resize)



(100% crop)

The flowers are just across from Buckingham Palace and they
certainly didn't look like in my pictures! I've had a similar
problem with my old Sony F707, which has luckily been rectified to
a great deal on the F717.

Click to expand...

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Jay247 said:

Hey Steve--

you were right, it was one stop overexposed-- but a real life saver
was the second test I've done in Finsbury Park with another red
flower field:

With spot-on exposure, the JPEG image was just like my example
above, reds go completely overboard and details are clipped. Lucky
for me, the RAW file caputred it all. I got the best results on
these reds with matrix 4 and 5 and shall keep that in mind for the
future. Geez, what a shock in the first place though.

Even with an overexposed image, matrix 4 still retains the detail
in the reds. Phew!

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Jay247 said:

Hey Steve--

you were right, it was one stop overexposed-- but a real life saver
was the second test I've done in Finsbury Park with another red
flower field:

With spot-on exposure, the JPEG image was just like my example
above, reds go completely overboard and details are clipped. Lucky
for me, the RAW file caputred it all. I got the best results on
these reds with matrix 4 and 5 and shall keep that in mind for the
future. Geez, what a shock in the first place though.

Even with an overexposed image, matrix 4 still retains the detail
in the reds. Phew!

Click to expand...

Jay247 said:

I've only just got my 1Ds a week ago, but when I took her out for a
test drive in Green Park the other day, I discovered that the
colour red is a disaster! Details are clipped and gone forever, and
the saturation in the reds seems a bit much (granted, I've used
matrix 2 - but it happens on other settings as well). Is it just
me? Have I not set the magic CF/PF or something? Or is there even
something wrong with my camera? Anyone familiar with the phenomenon?

The flowers are just across from Buckingham Palace and they
certainly didn't look like in my pictures! I've had a similar
problem with my old Sony F707, which has luckily been rectified to
a great deal on the F717.

Click to expand...