> Canon? Funnily, I would have bet on the L1 with its typical grilled
> highlights and blocked shadows, but no!
That one is a little more cooked that typical, but that's partially
due to my heavy-handed processing, but also due to the 6D's mucky
shadows that you have to protect like a toddler at the edge of the
Grand Canyon. I feel like I'm trying to shoot with outdated and x-ray
damaged rolls of Kodak Ektachrome.
I've been doing a lot of shooting with all four cameras (E-1, E-3, L1,
6D) and each has distinct advantages and disadvantages. For normal
daylight pictures, with the exception of the blown highlights, the L1
is the best of the bunch. When the colors are getting interesting,
there is absolutely no substitute to the E-1, but the L1 is pretty
close. For shadows, the E-1 has no peer, while the E-3 and 6D are
almost equally bad. The E-3 is banded and gets color shifts, the 6D
gets mushy and the colors go honky-tonk. For conversion to B&W, the
E-3 and L1 are far superior to the E-1 and 6D.
One thing I've been doing with the L1 is shooting with high-quality
JPEG+RAW. Lightroom thrashes the details of the RAW files and the
colors can be hard to manage, but the in-camera JPEGs not only hold up
well to post-processing, but make excellent guide images for
processing. I might have to do the same with the 6D. There are a
couple of settings for in-camera JPEGs with the 6D that are hard to
attain with Lightroom without a guide.
AG
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