But there is no highlight clipping :) Plus for the next shot I might step into a brightly lit bar or whatever. Wired that way I'm only interested in nailing the shot, not faffing about with settings to maximise my raw file potential. Events, street, weddings etc..... we need to be setup for ANYTHING and INSTANTLY
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You can make the automation work for you. The recipe is set f-number to give minimum acceptable DOF, set M with shutter speed as slow as you can without risking motion blur, set auto ISO - use EC to control highlight clipping. The latter requires a bit of photographer savvy, estimating how wide is the luminance range in the scene, or if you want to keep on the safe side and your camera has low read noise, put in a bit of -ve and stick with it.
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Looks to me like there is.
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My Weston meter certainly has ASA settings, and so does every other light meter that I've seen.
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Looks to me like there is. Those highlights may not be important to you, though. The way I do it is just as fast. We're both setting the exposure manually. Using one safe ISO for a series and using auto ISO for the same series is about the same amount of work.
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Hitting the J key on my keyboard in Lightroom reveals that there isn't a blown pixel on the image and that (deliberately) some of the blacks have been allowed to go to.... erm.... black :)
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There isn't a blown highlight in the image. Some of the shadows have been allowed to revert to pure black, intentionally. I'd share a screenshot direct from LR, but it appears to create a 13mb file which I cannot share here due to the 4mb limit.
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That tells you what's blown after raw development, not what's blown in the raw file.
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To which I'd say, as an event photographer, who cares? We need to nail the shot. Thats the key. Nail the shot, not nail an optimum raw file. NODODY chases that end goal. There was NEVER a blown highlight anyway. Heres the histogram:
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Quite the opposite, deliberately so :)
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Void tones in highlights are because of clipping. Histogram seems to deceive you.
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Hard to avoid in scenes with light sources in them. Then the question is whether you want to keep any detail or colour in the light. In this case, I agree with you.
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Yes. Filters help sometimes. Keeping ISO at lowest very often. Combining two exposures rather often.
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I know what you did there haha :) But seriously, all that matters is nailing the shot you need and/or want.
Sometimes you're in a controlled situation such as on a tripod for an epic landscape. Or in the studio. Or doing some architecture. Great!
But if you're doing street/events/weddings etc where you need to be immediately responsive the ONLY thing that matters is nailing the shot, which you can optimise in post later.
NOT thinking OMG have I set up my camera for the last 1% of its optimum raw file capabilities?
Thats where threads can be become less about real world photography and more about theory :)
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I wonder how I nailed focus with FM2 :)
I have ISO Auto on and limited to ISO 1600, -1 EV compensation, and aperture / shutter speed set manually. Cameras set to save raw. Pretty fast. -
That's rather missing the point. No-one says that you need to aim for 1% of optimum all the time. But the question arises why you'd want to know about exposure and take control yourself. 99% of the time the camera automation will do a reasonable job, so if a reasonable job is good enough, why bother? But if you do decide it's important enough to bother, you need to understand it well enough to make the right decisions to get you to the last 1%
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Exactly, I do the same. The only difference is my auto ISO is upper limited to 12800 these days. But we are saying the same thing. Choose the shutter speed and aperture you need to get the shot you want. The rest is largely irrelevant and/or optimised in post. No point taking something simple and then setting about to complicate it ;-)
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Because in 40 years of photography I've become content with learning my current cameras and nailing the shots I need. Not missing the point, rather focusing in on the points that nail decisive moments, not optimum raw files :)
