Guy Mancuso
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Well this darn 300mm 4.5 Mamiya is nailing everything in sight. Just one quickie have hundreds more. Interesting thing this was ISO 800 but I had a few that went under by a stop and at 1600 still damn good
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As I said before, I'm really impressed with your technique using this lens, so I have a couple of questions for you;Well this darn 300mm 4.5 Mamiya is nailing everything in sight. Just one quickie have hundreds more. Interesting thing this was ISO 800 but I had a few that went under by a stop and at 1600 still damn good
As I've pointed out several times on this forum per-channel-dynamic-range is the single most undervalued aspect of IQ. Tunsten light grossly underexposes the blue channel on a "good" exposure. By bringing the white balance back toward neutral you are giving a "push" to the blue channel. In this case I imagine you were asking your blue channel to perform in the ISO 1600-3200 range (a healthy dose of C14 color noise reduction would not be unwelcome here). Dynamic range and color accuracy will show up first in the blue channel in tungsten light (or sun-rise).What is impressing me here is this stuff is tungsten and the skin tones are bang on which is very rare to see great skin tones shooting tungsten and I did not even WB these. No camera i ever had did this well in tungsten.
Thanks Helen
Correct. Setting the WB on the back incorrectly cannot be detrimental to the raw file.Doug, (or anybody that knows)
I think I already know the answer to this but just in case... It's not setting the back to tungsten that challenges the blue channel, it's the actual light itself... right? In other words, if one inadvertently shot in sunlight with the back set to Tungsten, aside from needing to adjust the color balance in post you haven't "lost" anything.
I wasn't thinking about about a monopod, I thought that you're using a tripod so was wondering about the head.Not sure what you mean by head but no flash gear here all stage lighting with tungsten settings. I do have plenty with feet. LOL. But no mirror lockup . Shooting at 1/250 at F5 on almost all of these runway shots with the 300mm and the new Phase body and P25 plus back on a monopod.
Wow, really great results. Very smooth and nice look to the file. Like the way the lens draws the background as well.Well this darn 300mm 4.5 Mamiya is nailing everything in sight. Just one quickie have hundreds more. Interesting thing this was ISO 800 but I had a few that went under by a stop and at 1600 still damn good