Nikon camera

[kris]

I want to buy Nikon D70 but is there option in camera so it can shoot few photos in burst in diferent expositions for making HDRI.

 

I know cheap cameras have it but maybe half profesional doesnt.

 

Any experience with D70 and HDRI.

[AJLynn]

I want to buy Nikon D70 but is there option in camera so it can shoot few photos in burst in diferent expositions for making HDRI.

 

I know cheap cameras have it but maybe half profesional doesnt.

 

Any experience with D70 and HDRI.

 

I believe the feature you are looking for is automatic exposure bracketing. The D70 does it, 2 or 3 exposures with differences up to 2 f-stops - this might be good enough for HDRI use, maybe not, it's normally used so you can get a few slightly different exposures and decide later which one you want (this was much more useful on cameras that didn't have instant playback on LCD displays, but that's so 20th century).

[kris]

So whats the best solution for making hdri and good photos.

[derijones]

Kris

You can do exposure bracketting - or put the D70 on to aperature priority and just take a shot at each aperature (or every two) - obviously it will have to be on a tripod for this, but would give the best results I think.

The other alternative I suppose is to take the images in NEF format and tweak the exposure setting afterwards to get the latitude - If you bracketed say two stops either side of your ideal exposure and then adjusted the exposure setting of the raw data to get your low and high end data, you might be able to get enough shots to assemble a decent HDRI without a tripod - don't know if this makes sense, as I've just thought it and haven't tried it (and I've only had one cup of coffee!).

Deri

[Eric]

I understand what you're trying to do, but I'm not sure exactly how to do it. However, I will suggest this. (Oh, I do have the D70).

 

Definitely use a tripod.

 

The Aperture needs to remain fixed at whatever setting you choose for your purposes (determined by if you want shallow or great depth of field). If you vary your aperture, the largest aperture will have much more of your scene out of focus than the smallest aperture.

 

Your ISO needs to remain locked at 200 for nice, sharp photos with no noise.

 

You need to vary your exposure length / the shutter speed.

 

So, you basically want to shoot in full manual mode with a low ISO, aperture based on the way you want the image to look in regards to focusing, and change the shutter speed to vary your exposures.

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Eric

[Christopher Nichols]

For a medium quality HDR you will want around 8 stops, anything less is worthless. For High quality you will want 12 to 16. For really high quality such as the spheron HDR camera, they do 26 stops.

 

For spherical images, I would recommend your final image is around 3000x1500. Again the spheron goes to 10k, but that is overkill IMHO.