Echo Point NSW 15 image mosaic

[gregbradley]

I took a 15 image mosaic of the 3 Sisters at Katoomba NSW today using my Nikon D800E and Nikon 24-70mm F2.8 ED lens.

This camera never disappoints me.

I used exposure lock and I got a more even sky than I normally achieve so I keep doing that.


http://upload.pbase.com/image/147684647 D800E

I also did the same shot with a new Fuji XE1 which has no antialiasing filter to see how close it would come to the D800E.

Not a 100% fair comparison as the D800E was done with RAWs and the Fuji in jpeg and RAWs but as its new I was not able to find the RAWs and convert them yet.

Also the D800E was accidentally zoomed in to 52mm instead of being at 24mm which would be approx. the same as the XE1 at 18mm (1.6 crop sensor).

http://upload.pbase.com/image/147684635 XE1

Still it was closer than I thought. And with RAW and the same focal length perhaps closer again. Not bad for a small lightweight camera.

Greg.

[Deeno]

Interesting how different cameras interpret colour and light........

[iceman]

Very nice!
What do you mean by exposure lock?

[RickS]

Very nice, Greg. Both great cameras by the look of it.

[Octane]

Mike,

Exposure lock only applies when shooting in aperture or shutter priority.

You meter the scene/subject, and, on your Canon, press the * button on the back so the exposure or aperture value doesn't change.

When shooting manual, this isn't required.

It's a helpful technique for focus/recompose when shooting in aperture or shutter priority modes.

H

[mithrandir]

My question would be how do you keep the exposure lock pressed for 15 frames while recomposing without your finger cramping. On my Sonys you have to keep the button pressed until you've shot all the sequence.

I'd switch to manual if I wanted to get the same effect. However AutoPano does the exposure balancing so I probably would not bother.

It might be interesting to see how well the a77's automatic pano copes with extreme brightness changes.

[pluto]

Ha! I never knew that, I always just use manual when I need to lock settings.
I'll try that out, thanks H! :D

[iceman]

ditto! Thanks!

[Octane]

I use this technique when shooting aperture priority with AF-On for focus start/meter start, * to lock, recompose (if required -- not so much with the 5D Mark III's awesome 61 point focusing system) and then shutter release to take the image.

I've disabled focusing with the shutter release.

H

[gregbradley]

The D800 has an exposure lock button so I held it down whilst taking the images for the mosaic as I didn't want a different metering on each image.

The button is well positioned so it was no strain to keep it pushed down.

Greg.