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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Adam Vogler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kansas City | Mo. | USA | Posted: 11:41 PM on 09.03.09 |
->> Interesting read Dan.
What I like the best is the possibility of expanding/controlling the dynamic range.
I'd love the ability to adjust the dynamic range of the sensor. Controlling what is and is not shadow without having to break out a truck load of lights would really aid ones creativity. |
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Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 9:32 AM on 09.04.09 |
->> Interesting, even if there are a few errors in the article. The Pentax K-7, announced in May 2009, does in-camera merging of three shots at +/-3 EVs to capture about a 17EV range in a single in-camera tone-mapped image.
A couple of Ricoh and Fuji compacts blend two shots for expanded dynamic range, and the just-announced Sony SLRs spec out with a 2-shot merge, with in-camera alignment corrections if there is slight drift between the two captured shots.
What myself and many experienced HDRI shooters are waiting for is cameras that will capture and merge 3, 5, or 7 shots and instead of doing the tone-mapping in-camera, simply merge the bracket source images into a single 32-bit OpenEXR true High Dynamic Range file. If this camera can do that eventually, that's a great step forward. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 10:21 AM on 09.04.09 |
->> One of the things that has been most appealing about the "RED" camera platform is the lego-brick approach to the components. Being able to choose everything from lens mounts to sensor sizes makes it an interesting platform.
But RED is expensive, and ultimately still proprietary. It would be very cool if this catches on and you'd have opensource hardware and software that you could configure into whatever setup you need for a particular job.
I wonder how proprietary the autofocus and aperture interfaces are for Nikon and Canon lenses? Companies like Sigma and Tamron obviously have access to these interfaces. Do they pay a license fee or do they reverse engineer the interface?
Because it would be awesome if you could cook up an open platform with Canon and Nikon lens mounts and have software access to the AF and aperture controls. Doing things like timelapse photography with time-of-day-aware aperture adjustment would be trivial.
Exciting! |
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