Tom Caldwell
New Member
Stanis,
I am interseted in the settings that you develop for museum shooting, I developed some for circus shots, but it is not a big secret or particularly hard. I did post up a "recommended settings for modes" as a spreadsheet, but these were just off the top of my head and never meant to be proper advice.
What you have exhibited is that if your camera is adjusted properly then specific areas of shooting can give very acceptable images in out of the camera jpg format. I tend to shoot raw+jpg but if the jpg is suitable enough for my rough purposes then I rarely convert from raw. Raw files are mainly as backup negatives to fix up settings errors, or for tweaking up that ocassional great shot to perfection. I guess some people take nothing but great shots (grin).
We should start up a new thread to continue this investigation. Have you tried the high-contrast b&w in scene mode? I think it might be "too much" for a museum, but it does achieve levels of contrast beyond what yo can manually set the camera to capture.
We have had our own version of wild weather here - a very hot day last week at 32C followed by another with very hot NW winds that went right up to a maximum of 38.9C (second hottest October day in NSW ever recorded) before it switched to a cooler sea breeze, then a "cool" very pleasant day at 24C maximum. Yesterday it blew up a violent southerly gale which blew all night with cold winds. Forecast 25-40 km/h winds today, presently at 8:00am it is 15C - "feels like" 6.6C with the wind chill effect according to the official weather report, maximum forecast today is expected 20C. Usually we get months of very pleasant weather and so it is a change to be grumbling. We have only had 3 to 4 thunderstorms that brought rain in the last three months, it is very dry, even the storm is only bringing wind. After 5/6 very wet years we are heading into a drought cycle.
I am interseted in the settings that you develop for museum shooting, I developed some for circus shots, but it is not a big secret or particularly hard. I did post up a "recommended settings for modes" as a spreadsheet, but these were just off the top of my head and never meant to be proper advice.
What you have exhibited is that if your camera is adjusted properly then specific areas of shooting can give very acceptable images in out of the camera jpg format. I tend to shoot raw+jpg but if the jpg is suitable enough for my rough purposes then I rarely convert from raw. Raw files are mainly as backup negatives to fix up settings errors, or for tweaking up that ocassional great shot to perfection. I guess some people take nothing but great shots (grin).
We should start up a new thread to continue this investigation. Have you tried the high-contrast b&w in scene mode? I think it might be "too much" for a museum, but it does achieve levels of contrast beyond what yo can manually set the camera to capture.
We have had our own version of wild weather here - a very hot day last week at 32C followed by another with very hot NW winds that went right up to a maximum of 38.9C (second hottest October day in NSW ever recorded) before it switched to a cooler sea breeze, then a "cool" very pleasant day at 24C maximum. Yesterday it blew up a violent southerly gale which blew all night with cold winds. Forecast 25-40 km/h winds today, presently at 8:00am it is 15C - "feels like" 6.6C with the wind chill effect according to the official weather report, maximum forecast today is expected 20C. Usually we get months of very pleasant weather and so it is a change to be grumbling. We have only had 3 to 4 thunderstorms that brought rain in the last three months, it is very dry, even the storm is only bringing wind. After 5/6 very wet years we are heading into a drought cycle.
