El Capitan

Posted by E.J. Peiker on Sun Aug 07, 2005 9:09 am

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El Capitan - Yosemite National Park, California
EOS 1Ds Mark II, 24-70mm

From one of the classic shooting stops along the Yosemite Valley - taken at Valley View

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by PF on Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:27 am

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Classic but always beautiful.

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by RServranckx on Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:42 am

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Beautiful, calm scene. The exposure is perfect! Did you use a GND, or maybe merged exposures? I'm surprised at the perfect exposure of the dark trees, given what appears to be a bright sky.

Very well done.

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by E.J. Peiker on Sun Aug 07, 2005 12:05 pm

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RServranckx wrote:Beautiful, calm scene. The exposure is perfect! Did you use a GND, or maybe merged exposures? I'm surprised at the perfect exposure of the dark trees, given what appears to be a bright sky.

Nope its a single shot - the 1Ds Mark II has about 9 stops from white to black.

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by RServranckx on Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:42 pm

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E.J. Peiker wrote:Nope its a single shot - the 1Ds Mark II has about 9 stops from white to black.

9 stops?!?!? Wow, that's absolutely incredible - this almost makes GND filters obsolete!

What's the typical digital camera's range? About 5.5 stops? That's an huge difference!

Man, it's too bad that the 1Ds MkII is completely out of my price range, as it must be one awesome camera to use.

Thanks for the info, E.J.

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by Hillebrand Breuker on Sun Aug 07, 2005 3:17 pm

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This is marvelous I should visit Yosemite someday jsut to view this in real life. Thanks for sharing.....

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by Campbell on Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:30 pm

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Love it!

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by photosbyvito on Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:57 am

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wow...that's awesome!
9 stops is crazy!

i heard the fuji pro SLRs were made to have larger dynamic ranges...what's the stop range?

nice work here man!
this was your trip from a couple months ago right?

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:13 pm

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photosbyvito wrote:wow...that's awesome!
9 stops is crazy!

i heard the fuji pro SLRs were made to have larger dynamic ranges...what's the stop range?

Several tests using a gray card on the1Ds shows that from solid white to solid black is 9 stops, the Fuji is closer to 11 but the useable range is probably a stop less than that on each camera as that last half stop or so on either end is so close in numeric value to the final 0,0,0 or 255, 255, 255 outcome for black and white. Still about twice as much as Velvia and 1.5 times as much as Astia but shy of print film capability.

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by Ken Cravillion on Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:27 pm