Aren’t you sick and tired of nerds? They have done so much damage to life on earth. Men and women used to make love, they used to raise families and build amazing industries, now all people can do is bicker about how many stops dynamic range a Canon and Sony has.
Sony say it is 15 stops. Is the 15 stops in the room with us right now? Is the shadow realm noisy?
If you’re also a nerd, you may have seen the Sony a7v vs EOS R6 III dynamic range charts at PhotonstoPhotos.
These charts are excellent at photons, but we never seem to see the photos.
I want to issue a challenge to the camera community and that bloke who posts AI slop…
I want YOU to SHOW me, with IMAGES, moving or still, what 15 stops dynamic range looks like on the Sony a7 V, and then compare the same maximum HDR grading on the Canon EOS R6 Mark III, because apparently this 15 stops is very important.
Film (if you remember that) was measured at 13 stops.
I want to see a comparison at 13 stops too, digital to film.
With film, despite quite an impressive number of stops in-between the black and white parts in the same frame, colours come out rather well. The result also has something known as contrast, and a strange x-factor called tonality which means you can see the difference between colours of the same hue.
So come on camera reviewers and the equally as stupid audience… Let’s get the shadows slider and put it all the way to 11, and get the highlight slider and bring it all the way down the other way. Don’t forget to under-expose 6 stops to protect a pointless little light bulb, and have some dodgy looking human subject lurking in the shadows with noise all over his face.
Let’s see what these MAXIMUM dynamic range shots look like and then we can judge whether we actually like it or not… Then we can finally but the debate to bed – is Sony’s 15 stops of dynamic range A) real and B) a beautiful photographic tool?
For until now, all the shots I’ve seen that uses the maximum dynamic range of a sensor have been those weird over-processed HDR-sick photos you used to get all over Flickr.
I await however to be impressed. Get those images, count the stops and send them in for me to see on the EOSHD Forum.
Because the debate and clamour out there on the dweebweb is reaching a fever pitch and I can’t stand it any more. All those headlines must mean that the ultimate last couple of stops must be REALLY important, right?
12? loser territory, 13 is all the difference. Boom you have an ARRI ALEXA 35.
Alas, like Gerald Undone’s shots, the evidence is still missing after all these years!
