[davidmanze]

The Mediterranean where the sun is bright and contrast is ferocious, the difference between the exposure on a white bird and the underside of a dark bird can be four or five stops! ..........

.....What the eye can register in an overall scene maybe very well only six and a half stops......but behind those eye lies a brain with a vast array of visual experiences........when I take an image of a Glossy Ibis, the result SOOC is a black heavily underexposed bird that shows no detail at all set against a bright natural back drop........the result is unusable without radical PP...... unless you are prepared to accept silhouetted black birds....

...this PP is my "go to modus operandum" and without it I would be in the pooh!

I also think PDAF sensors would interfere with the ability to use the DR with this banding business.........yes I know not in most situations.....but in the case of the glossy ibis........it would have done!

Here is the otherwise unremarkable image.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/124690178@N08/42293386961/in/dateposted-public/