Blown Highlights

[alred]

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Question about the x1,it seems to blow highlights easily or is this just me I shoot in aperture priority most of the time and I am at least -2/3 of a stop EC to try and keep them under control. Wondering if the x2 will improve on this,if so I might consider one because the IQ of my x1 is great.

 

Best to all.

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[wda]

Alred, Welcome to the Forum!

Try switching to manual exposure and meter selectively if appropriate. (For a landscape, tilt the camera downwards a few degrees to reduce the influence of the brighter sky, for example} Then adjust in accordance with your personal experience and technique.

 

Second, shoot Raw. You can recover more detail from a raw file than a JPEG which has been processed in camera, throwing away a lot of information in the file compression process.

 

Adjusting EV as you go can work, but leads to more errors in my experience. It is too easy to forget your adjustments when they cease to be appropriate.

 

Shoot, analyse, shoot, assess and gradually you will find a technique which can become second nature to you.

[leicologe]

Hi Alred ,

 

I don´t know the X1 , but I am an owner of the X2.

To practice try the following

 

Switch on the histogram display.

If you've found your image section look at the histogram.

Exposure on the lights in such a way that they are not truncated on the right.

This is a sure way to get the widest possible range of tones and no over-exposure with blown-out highlights.

 

By the time you get a feel and you can omit the histogram display.

This method is mainly used for static images.

 

regards

Thomas

[Dan States]

The x1 tends to over expose. Shooting raw is the best answer as mentioned earlier. You will get much richer files with none of the sharpening artifacts the x1 jpegs suffer.