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What is "highlight tone priority" good for anyway?
Marsu42:
--- Quote from: Policar on April 15, 2012, 04:30:58 PM ---To me the clipped highlights look a lot worse than a little shadow grain that is unnoticeable when printed.
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Of course clipped highlights are worse than shadow noise - the question is just if htp is not outperformed by shooting at half iso, underexposing 1ev (thus saving the highlights) and then raising the shadows with an intelligent algorithm like in LR4 in contrast to applying just a dumb tone curve in the raw converter...
nikkito:
after reading all this i got confused. ha!
for those shooting Raw and using lightroom having HTP activated doesn't change anything. or am i getting all wrong?
Marsu42:
--- Quote from: nikkito on April 15, 2012, 04:48:37 PM ---after reading all this i got confused. ha!
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You're correct: you're confused :-) ... but I'm sure Canon marketing wants people confused and thinking that htp is a mini-hdr mode (as I thought) or magically expands the dynamic range of the sensor. Fyi: htp changes the tone curve when shooting jpeg or raw. In jpeg the effect is applied in the camera, for raw as it seems from the discussion above in the raw converter (Canon dpp, Adobe raw).
nikkito:
Wahrscheinlich ist es so wie du sagst ;)
I know it's not a mini HDR or something like that. What I'm asking myself now is if I can get the same results when i Post process a picture with Lightroom. Does it makes a difference if you have it on or not?
I used to have it on, not the same with ALO since I know that works only if you're shooting raw (or jpg) and post processing with DPP.
adamkozlowski:
YMMV, but i used HTP for video. It enabled me to have a lot more detail in the highlights. And of course it's useful to all those "brave" people who shoot JPG.
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