>>2895996>are we done with this yet?Attached is a shot DPReview took while testing the Canon 5Ds. This is not a multi-frame HDR shot. This is from a single RAW file. You can see the full resolution version at:
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5ds-sr/11This is considered poor by digital standards. The 5Ds has off-chip ADCs so when you push deep shadows in the RAW file they are noisy and do not have the fine detail you would expect. Exmor sensors have on chip ADCs and can do this with nearly no noise and the same fine detail in deep shadows that you get in brighter areas.
I know of only two ways you could replicate this using film but no GND filters:
* Carefully exposed B&W developed with a compensating developer.
* Maybe Kodak Vision 3 500T processed normally (ECN-2, not C41). I say maybe because Kodak's tech sheet suggests it has the DR, but I wonder if the shadows would be too blocked up / grainy for it to stand next to even the Canon file.
Portra cannot do this. Ektar sure as hell cannot do this. No B&W film with a normal developer can do this. That section of your photo did not do this (shadows are blocked). I can't think of any discontinued emulsion that I ever used that could do this.
Galen Rowell mastered this kind of shot on 35mm film...usinig GND filters. We now have digital shooters leaving their GND filters at home because they don't need them.
So are we done with this yet?
