naff! hdr pentax k7
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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My K-5 does wonderful HDR, apart from occasional softness from movement, (can't be helped) it produces very natural looking images with much more dynamic range.
No HDR:
With HDR and -1.6 EV in post:
Assorted Pentax/Nikon/Mamiya stuff
All great cameras. I quite miss my K20D.
You can always get the results you want by taking the shots manually and then combining them in software afterwards.
Fan of DA limited and old manual lenses
i wish i hadn't purchased this camera . even on the strong setting the hadr effect is barely noticeable
my Sony hx 300 gives fabulous hdr images
any suggestions
The Sony is 4 years younger than the Pentax K-7 so may have improved (subjective) in this area over Pentax's first attempt at this.
Fundamentally though, HDR is intended to provide a single combined image, that retains details in the darker regions at the same time as retaining the details in the brighter highlight regions. One of these would be lost if you took just a single photo, which would have to expose for just one region or the other.
As always, because it takes multiple photos and merges them together, HDR is not ideal for any scenes with movement in it and ideally should be tripod based. It's also only intended for scenes where there is a distinct difference in brightness between part of the scene, such as shooting inside a house, but with a bright window in the background for example.
Pentax takes a somewhat purest approach to this, and doesn't try to make the image seem crazy computer art type exposures, at least on the auto and level 1 settings. More info on this here: https://www.adorama.com/alc/0011608/blogarticle/The-Pentax-K-7-The-era-of-in-cam...
If you are not happy with the results, there are better options than trying to do this in camera. As others have suggested, I'd recommend learning to shoot bracketed exposure photos and then importing them into specialised HDR software such as photomatix This will then provide you with all the tools required to make HDR shots as crazy as you want them, and offers much more flexibility than the 3 or 4 in camera settings alone. By post processing your images, you can shape them to be exactly what you want them to be, whilst still benefiting from the image quality of the Pentax DSLR.
Best wishes, Kris.
It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
My website
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my Sony hx 300 gives fabulous hdr images
any suggestions
bye the way i only paid £35 for my k7 so i shouldnt complain