Megapixel talk makes me want to shoot marketing people

11 or 12MP from 10 is such a tiny resolution increment.

11% increase for 10-12 hardly seems worth it as the noise will go up.

Just give me a K10D with better noise characteristics (especially the blue chanel).

Do all your editing in psd, tiff or a similar format and only make the finished product JPEG.

Photoshop and Lightroom convert on the fly giving you a suitable 'preview'.

I may give it an other go but even with the exported image imported into Lightroom I didn't like it.

Lastly, I chose a bad set to combine as the branches on one edge were completely mixed up.

I tried photomatix and hated it, I found the results very poor and it made the image 10x noisier (without tone mapping).

I don't have a version of photoshop which can do masking and blend layers properly so HDR is not an option for me, nor is exposure blending.

If it can't be done in Lightroom I'm not going to touch it, for now.

Yeah, it is the opposite when I shoot with the S20. I have to get the shadow details and then I can bring back all the highlights. I have to work backwards with my K10D which can be a little awkward. I guess that happens when you change sensor type.

I was browsing through my photo collection and found one that my other half took with her S20Pro. When the Super CCD SR goes wrong it goes horribly wrong. This particular image has green clipping so bad that when you reduce the exposure parts of the image 'glow' 100% green. Looks really odd, gives the plants and lichen that were blown out an eerie 'radioactive' look.

One amazing this about the SR sensors is the complete lack of chroma noise, it is all luminance (and that can get bad on the S20Pro's sensor).

Now, this shot is one I took so posting it is not a problem

Before:



After:



That is 2.5 stops recovery and some fill light.

I actually have one shot with detail recoverable with parts of the image overexposed by 4 stops!

Now if a picture needs that much fixing it is not really worth keeping. It is not my shot so I can't upload it.

If I was shooting weddings professionally I'd be sorely tempted by an S3 or S5.

EDIT:

I've had the sky blown out a lot less than that with my K10D and it is never recoverable. It completely lacks tonal range and becomes three bands of blue, cyan and white.

Well, it is true...

*runs like hell...*

Even more amazing with something like an FujiFilm S3 or S5 (or an S20Pro)

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It has something to do with cookies. When I was at university I couldn't log on to a forum without being logged out again after viewing 2-3 pages. I had to log in repeatedly to be able to get anything done.