Timeline for Canon 70D often overexposing or underexposing shots
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| May 27, 2019 at 8:58 | comment | added | Nelson | Advanced gear does not advance the user. Advanced gear is needed when the user wants to do more advanced things, but is limited by the equipment. If a user takes a crappy picture with their phone and have no idea why, then getting advanced gear does not solve that problem. | |
| May 27, 2019 at 6:34 | comment | added | joojaa | @Giancarlo It is a common misunderstanding that professional/advanced gear is better on all metrics. They frequently have a very steep learning curve for beginners and require more work to get things done. This is ok, they have the operator there to do the things a operator does better. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 10:16 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Not really. if you want all the work done for you, use a phone, or drop your photos into one of the myriad 'auto-fix-it-for-you-with-filters' apps now available. You wouldn't take a moped to a motorcycle race; but if all you want to do is commute, then one would be just fine. Fine cameras produce fine results - but they need experienced hands & a more detailed approach. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 10:10 | comment | added | Giancarlo | I understand that with RAW you should do everything for yourself, but shouldn't the in camera jpeg processing produce somewhat acceptable results for these kind of high contrast scenes. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 10:05 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Your Galaxy, same as most phones, assumes the user is dumb & so does a lot of the work for you. Cameras require a smarter user. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 9:36 | comment | added | Giancarlo | It's interesting that my old Galaxy S6 takes better pictures in this situation than an expensive dslr. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 9:26 | comment | added | Tetsujin | You can't 'get this right in the first place' really, you can only err on the side of caution. The sensor doesn't have anything like the dynamic range of the human eye. As Hueco says 'high contrast scenes are where auto modes go to die'. [He ought to put that in bold, it's a good epithet.] If you meter for the sky, the land will be dark, but possibly recoverable. If you meter for the shadows, the sky is gone forever. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 9:22 | comment | added | Giancarlo | Of course I could recover a lot more, but it is time consuming when you have lots of pictures and I want to get it right in the first place. | |
| May 26, 2019 at 9:13 | history | answered | Tetsujin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |