SL2-S firmware v2.1 - what changes do you see?

[scott kirkpatrick]

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Afternoon sun is pretty contrasty these days, so here's a test shooting inside.  Setting center-weighted exposure from the highlighted area on the carpet gave  1/800 sec.  Setting exposure by focusing on the interior walls gave 1/250 and highlights were not recoverable.  The highlight weighted exposure, focusing on interior detail (the cabinet) was 1/640.  First, what this gave without correction ( and how it appeared in the viewfinder) was:

 

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As others have commented, it's a little hard to see but at least it is focussed correctly.  Using C1 the shadows come up and the highlights come down pretty easily:

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by scott kirkpatrick

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[vikasmg]

Quite an effective illustration.  Thank you!

[scott kirkpatrick]

Here are some more examples, letting highlight exposure take control, setting exposure compensation to 0 instead of the -1/3 stop that I usually use.  My basic post processing for these long scale exposures is to reduce exposure if any really important elements remain blown out, then increase the COne shadow slider to bring shadow detail into the range of view  It works pretty well.  Sometimes nothing is needed:

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Sometimes the corrections are small:

 

and they can be quite large:

 

 

[frame-it]

i use only HW exposure mode since we first saw it

Edited September 27, 2021 by frame-it

[michali]

51 minutes ago, frame-it said:

i use only HW exposure mode since we first saw it

+1 Since I first got the camera in June this year, it's been my standard setting.