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| This was actually shot on my back verandah where we get lots of flying visitors. |
I recently spent a day at Taronga zoo in Sydney becoming acquainted with the B700 and finding it very suitable for subjects which will hold still for at least a few seconds.
The pictures can tell the story.
All the photos started as RAWs, converted in Adobe Camera Raw and run through Photoshop.
I shoot RAW + JPG Fine and find I can ALWAYS get a better photo from the RAW file with a bit of work in ACR and Photoshop.
The problem with the JPGs in the B700 and every other small sensor camera I have used is that the JPG engine tries to eliminate luminance noise even when the NR level is set to LOW.
Unfortunately this also eliminates fine detail which is readily found in the RAW files.
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| This is the JPG from the TIFF from the original RAW file. compare this with the SOOC JPG below. |
File from the RAW original above, unmodified SOOC JPG below.
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| Straight out of camera JPG. I selected this subject because of the high subject brightness range, usually a problem for small sensor cameras. but the RAW file above shows that substantial highlight and shadow detail are able to be revealed from the original RAW. The photo below was made in the rainforest aviary. |
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| This metallic starling was shot handheld at focal length (equivalent) 400mm and 1/13 second which is 5 stops slower than the recommended inverse of the focal length rule. You can see the picture is not quite tack sharp but I think it is very good in the circumstances. |