Landscapelover
Senior Subscriber Member
Thanks so much Eleanor! I don't have lightroom. For Nikon, I 've always open the RAW file in PS CS5. I've been using the PS for many years and got use to it. That's the only reason I've never used the LR.Promote this is absolutely gorgeous!! Beautiful color and shapes of darks and lights. Are you processing in Lightroom or C1 or any other RAW software?? Right now I'm back in Houston and have been doing some test shots around my house and yard and comparing my P65+ with the 800e using my best lenses. Looking at tonalities at 100 percent and sometimes 400 percent in LR and C1 and finding out what I have to do to mimic the smooth gradations and micro contrast I see in my Phase back. Can come very very close but the 800e is never going to have the tonalities quite as creamy as my Phase One (and the former needs a heck of a lot more processing work!!!)...I am trying shooting with the 800e at iso's 64 and even 50 to see what that does. Also shooting at iso 50 with the Phase back. One thing I know for sure tho...holding my 800e with my 35 1.4 lens and holding the Hasselblad and Phase One 65+ with the Hassy 50 lens...there is no contest...Medium format is hugely heavy and bulky and not for airline travel anymore for me.....eleanor
You are right in that the Nikon RAW file needs more work than the Phase One, mine is IQ180. I've usually used ISO of 100 but may try 50 in the future.
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