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12/11/2013 01:49:14 AM · #1 |
Does any camera, to anyone's knowledge, have a feature where it will automatically set the exposure to be as bright as possible for any given scene without clipping any highlights? This would be an insanely handy feature to have; for me, way more so than things like those auto ISO functions that have surfaced in the past few generations. Would it be a difficult thing to implement? Doesn't seem like it would be; why do you think it hasn't been developed yet?
For the record, I understand you can monitor highlight clipping and all that jazz on the LCD, but that would still be a lot slower and more cumbersome than having the camera just dial in the settings instantaneously.
If such a feature exists already, tell me about it!
Message edited by author 2013-12-11 01:56:40. |
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12/11/2013 04:19:29 AM · #2 |
| I never heard of a feature like that but of course it would be quite useful :) |
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12/11/2013 07:06:31 AM · #3 |
could you just manually expose to the right the desired amount and then meter the brightest part of the scene?
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12/11/2013 07:32:16 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Mike:
could you just manually expose to the right the desired amount and then meter the brightest part of the scene? |
again, you could do lots of neat things manually, but this would be a mode like
auto ISO: instantaneous |
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12/11/2013 07:36:32 AM · #5 |
| The key with exposing to the right is deciding that certain highlights, like bright lights in frame, *will* get clipped, and that this is acceptable. For many scenes, a "maximize exposure without clipping" algorithm would work, but for any scenes with bright spot sources, would result in grossly under-exposed images. |
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