Comments on: Ansel Adams at the click of a button http://stealthisidea.com/articles/in-camera-hdr/ Philip Haine's articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Philip Haine http://stealthisidea.com/articles/in-camera-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-2212 Philip Haine Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:57:24 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=440#comment-2212 Long exposures of several seconds to several minutes require a lot of trial and error. What if you could see the long exposure develop before your eyes, right on the LCD screen? You could press a remote shutter release once to start the shot and again to stop it when the results on the screen match the desired effect. The settings used for the exposure could then be fixed and tweaked for the next, more precise shot. Long exposures of several seconds to several minutes require a lot of trial and error.

What if you could see the long exposure develop before your eyes, right on the LCD screen?

You could press a remote shutter release once to start the shot and again to stop it when the results on the screen match the desired effect.

The settings used for the exposure could then be fixed and tweaked for the next, more precise shot.

]]> By: Philip Haine http://stealthisidea.com/articles/in-camera-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 Philip Haine Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:12:41 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=440#comment-2203 Right now you can only set the digital ISO value for the entire shot. Could the sensor allowed for variable sensitivity across the image? Perhaps we could get higher dynamic range shots with each exposure. Just a thought. Right now you can only set the digital ISO value for the entire shot.

Could the sensor allowed for variable sensitivity across the image? Perhaps we could get higher dynamic range shots with each exposure.

Just a thought.

]]> By: Philip Haine http://stealthisidea.com/articles/in-camera-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-2194 Philip Haine Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:27:06 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=440#comment-2194 Here is another small but useful feature that I haven't seen yet: "everything bracketing". Exposure bracketing is common, white balance bracketing sometimes. But it'd be interesting to set a range of any parameter: aperture, shutter, zoom, ISO, flash level. Even more than one at a time. Then you could press and hold and have it take 9 or 16 photos for you in quick succession. Then you could choose which image captures the scene perfectly, and adopt those settings for subsequent shots. Especially useful would be combinations of shutter & aperture that are all properly exposed. For high-contrast photography, it would give shots metered to the overall scene, the brightest areas, and the darkest areas. (A precursor to the in-camera HDR concept that was the original idea of this post) Here is another small but useful feature that I haven’t seen yet: “everything bracketing”. Exposure bracketing is common, white balance bracketing sometimes. But it’d be interesting to set a range of any parameter: aperture, shutter, zoom, ISO, flash level. Even more than one at a time.

Then you could press and hold and have it take 9 or 16 photos for you in quick succession. Then you could choose which image captures the scene perfectly, and adopt those settings for subsequent shots.

Especially useful would be combinations of shutter & aperture that are all properly exposed.

For high-contrast photography, it would give shots metered to the overall scene, the brightest areas, and the darkest areas. (A precursor to the in-camera HDR concept that was the original idea of this post)

]]> By: Paul W. Homer http://stealthisidea.com/articles/in-camera-hdr/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 Paul W. Homer Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:22:17 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=440#comment-2192 I'd love to see HDR built in, that would be very cool. I used to have a camera that allowed multiple exposures (a little fuji), which made for some great abstracts. The biggest feature I want is to be able to shoot in dark rooms. My SLR (30D) does ~iso3200, some do 6400, but I'd love much much higher. 25600? 102400? (and no grain :-) Oh yea, and infrared :-) Paul. I’d love to see HDR built in, that would be very cool. I used to have a camera that allowed multiple exposures (a little fuji), which made for some great abstracts.

The biggest feature I want is to be able to shoot in dark rooms. My SLR (30D) does ~iso3200, some do 6400, but I’d love much much higher. 25600? 102400? (and no grain :-)

Oh yea, and infrared :-)

Paul.

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