View single post by Robert

Posted: Tue Dec 25th, 2018 16:51

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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The D800 is meeting hopes and expectations I have taken over 400 exposures of my fathers slides which were taken in 1965 with a Zeiss Contaflex. Not wishing to be unkind but the exposures are frequently a long way from ideal, high contrast scenes flowers in sunlight with heavy shadows in the frame, very difficult exposures. Mostly Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides, some are a different make and are beyond salvage.

I started by making trial exposures and homing in on a decent exposure but that wasn't successful. I couldn't get a decent reproduction with a single exposure so now I am bracketing five exposures at 0.7EV, then using Lr's HDR tool to make one decent image from the five. It certainly makes the MacPro work, I had 12 exposures of one slide which I used to make an HDR. The MacPro seemed to be taking a long time then I realised it's clock had stopped! I re-booted and ran the HDR again, no problem second time.

The large D800 NEF files don't seem to be too much of a problem, the interface seems just as lively as usual, importing 400 plus D800 NEF's didn't seem to be significantly different from importing 400 D3 files onto the SSD where I store the imported images while I process them.

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Robert.