Some infos for you guys, I must have provided it before but here we go :
¤ "Unlimited" shoot time with Merrill DP : ANKER3 battery via SAC5 adapter.
¤ Too contrasty clouds when shattered : You can't do anything for that apart PP the sky afterwards. That's a Merrill particularity.
¤ Quattro blowing : Like the other AFE DP/SD so DP1x/DP2x/SD15 >> it blow highlights but also wavelengths. Flower shoot is just complicated (you take the camera and throw it at the river). Even when you set the quattro with tiny focussing point and spot, and EVEN IF HISTOGRAM say it's ok. The Histogram on the Quattro is wrong. Take a tripod, show histogram, expose something to the right at the limit of blowing the wind, you will notice blown thing in the final file EVEN if the histogram say no.
¤ Relativity between foveon and film : Film is FAR easier. Look like nobody shoot film any-more. Film is easier to expose in every situations than any digital devices apart latest sony FF. Ektar 100 for example, Superia 200 ...
Hope this help
@ Sir
GrahamWelland:
You will notice the unlimited amount of time you can spend on a Merrill file to look "more normal". With years I developed scripts for that in PS so it take few seconds now but foveon files should be studied over a long period to be tamed. Can go from one week to one year; sometimes never (Dpreview sigma forum for example: here we reach decades of crap).