Yes..the ability to shoot in harsh light is the main driver for this
technology and will lead to an opening up of new artistic aethetics.
Sunset/sunrise lighting has dominated the majority of well balanced
photographs for so long that it will take a while for people to attune to
new types of lighting.
"Jeff Davies" <>
20/11/2009 05:27 PM
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RE: [Birding-Aus] Live Lens
G'day Peter,
I think this facility has huge promise especially in a country like ours
with such harsh light for six months of every year.
Photographing an Albatross at sea on a bright day with the sun high in the
sky is a very hard task. If you were able to set your aperture for the
blacks while retaining the white areas, it is a simple task to then go
through Photoshop resetting the levels to something more normal, but with
the detail of both light and dark retained equally, this is impossible
with
current camera models. No amount of "Shadow Highlights" in Photoshop can
bring back detail that just isn't there to be retrieved. This is "Shadow
Highlights" at point of capture. The examples presented on the website are
extreme, a more subtle application at the discretion of the photographer
would be very handy.
Cheers Jeff.
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Subject: Live Lens
Dynamic range is a human concept. You might be able to fiddle around with
merging algorithms on board a camera or in post processing software, but
at the end of the day it comes down to the viewers perception of the scene
and how they want to represent it.
This invention would be ok for survelliance equipment or any application
that requires as much detail as possible to be captured, but for artistic
purposes i'd imagine it would create very 'unnatural' looking
images....whatever that means these days. ;)
Has anyone tried doing HDR bird photography?
Alistair McKeough <>
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20/11/2009 04:41 PM
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Re: [Birding-Aus] Live Lens
Interesting.
If you can solve dynamic range problems with modern cameras you'd make a
truck load of money and open up a vast array of applications - assuming
you
can maintain image quality.
Is Ansel Adams' zone system finally obsolete? I think he'd be smiling from
above if it is.
2009/11/20 Bill Moorhead <>
> A friend passed this segment from the TV programme New Inventors onto
me.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/txt/s2746555.htm
>
> This, so called, Live Lens is the size of a postage stamp and apparently
> can be retrofitted to existing cameras and lenses. Issues of lightness
and
> darkness in the same image appear to be improved markedly. Anyway, it'd
be
> interesting to see how the invention goes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
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