On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/5/2013 5:27 PM, DZDub wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Rick Beckrich <ribec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> With apologies to my senior, who may have coined the phrase.
> >>
> >> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4149
> > I've been using crocuses to test my E-400. I find that color to be very
> > tough to capture and have the result resemble what I saw. Purples too.
> I
> > am having better luck with the purple crocuses using the E-400. I was
> > going to work on the yellow-orange ones today, but a deer ate 'em. Maybe
> > just as well for my sanity.
>
> Watch that red channel! When it clips, it throws the color off. No matter
> how good the color of the sensor/processor,
> blown channels cause trouble. Rick's Crocuses have quite a bit of blown
> red channel.
>
> Pure yellows are a bit more forgiving, but some purples just go weird, and
> it may not be obvious why. The red channel
> can go off even when the flowers don't look all that bright.
>
> If overexposed for red, pulling the highlights down in conversion may or
> may not work. IF they pull down as a big spike
> just below the top, they still may be off.
>
> I don't know where the sweet spot for the E-400 may be. With a camera with
> low noise, it's always good to shoot low ISO
> and bracket lower in EV than you can imagine might be right. One of those
> dark looking ones, with the midtones brought
> back up, may be really sweet!
>
Nothing is quite as good as catching yellows perfectly, rather than fixing
in post. So I tend to bracket. That just works best for me.
I think generally shooting all of the time at -.3 to -.7 exp comp is the
ticket. Very similar to the E-1.
Joel W.
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