02-06-2013, 02:33 PM
"...But most of the time, Jpeg is to atricfical."
I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying. I shoot a lot of stuff using JPEG and no PP. For example in the link below I don't think that it looks at all artificial.
http://issuu.com/studor13/docs/school_da...geNumber=1
However, I also shoot RAW because there is a lot of information in there that I want to pull out.
In the first example below it is the JPEG straight out of the camera. As you can see it is quite awful. But with a bit of help from LR4 you can see how different it is in the second (RAW) image.
The choice of shooting a D80 or a D800, or JPEG or RAW is always the same. You need to know in advance what it is that you are trying to do.
But going back to your original question, if you shoot a D800 with D-Lighting set to High (or even extra high) you can capture an entire scene that has a wide DR without you having to do a lot of PP.
I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying. I shoot a lot of stuff using JPEG and no PP. For example in the link below I don't think that it looks at all artificial.
http://issuu.com/studor13/docs/school_da...geNumber=1
However, I also shoot RAW because there is a lot of information in there that I want to pull out.
In the first example below it is the JPEG straight out of the camera. As you can see it is quite awful. But with a bit of help from LR4 you can see how different it is in the second (RAW) image.
The choice of shooting a D80 or a D800, or JPEG or RAW is always the same. You need to know in advance what it is that you are trying to do.
But going back to your original question, if you shoot a D800 with D-Lighting set to High (or even extra high) you can capture an entire scene that has a wide DR without you having to do a lot of PP.