Don't moan about the AF101 and highlights - they're not really an issue!

Sparky874

Sparky874

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Hello all

I used a Tokina 11- 16mm tonight and purposely took a shot looking straight into the direct evening sun to see what effects it really had on the picture - please excuse the rather uninteresting hand held shot, but there's nothing wrong with the way the camera has handled the highlights - you just need to know how to expose the camera in these situations.


Cheers, Sparky
 
... and thank the Lord for the built in ND's :)

Really - all the stuff on highlights (IMO) is down to people's experiences & needs. Old school video guys that haven't touched DSLR expose very differently to DSLR shooters... and film DP's come at it from a different angle (fixed ASA's for film stock & ND/Filters rather than ISO changes as per DSLR etc).

Really, it just depends how you read exposure & what you're looking to do yourself vs what you want the camera to do for you.

Nice test anyway... being from Blighty too, I must say all this sun & hot weather is rather un-seasonal - LOL!
 
I have been watching a lot of the PBS News Hour recently and have noticed that many of their shots have that yellow over-exposed blooming look. The faces are great which is what they have been exposing for, but the yellow blown out highlights say Panasonic to me. I keep my zebras at 75% for anything other than white and often switch to 95% to check the whites and then to the waveform to watch the highlights. Have to be careful. Still wish the highlights didn't have that yellowish cast when they are slightly over exposed. Such is life.
 
Why would the yellow blown out stuff say "Panasonic" to you? It says "overexposed" to me, and it happens on everything. Watch for it in movies, on major TV series, I see yellow all the time. It's a simple fact of life -- if you overexpose to the point where the red channel is clipping, skin will go yellow.
 
I see the same thing Barry. The funny thing is, I might notice the problems of a camera when I'm first playing with it, but once I use it for real, I don't notice all the pixels. And the thing is, I see all of the problems I might notice with a camera in movies and on TV shows as well.

I'll say one thing: The AF100 is my favorite of all the cameras I've owned, and that includes my 16mm cameras.

I sold my HVX200 a little over two years ago. About six months later I bought a Canon 5D. I remember saying to all my friends that I loved certain things about the 5D, but that I really missed the HVX200. I kept saying, "I wish they would come out with a camera that was a combination of the two." I think the AF100 has fulfilled that wish beyond my expectations. It is a great camera.
 
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