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High Dynamic Range Imaging with the Sigma DP1x

Tips & Tricks for top quality HDR shots from Sigma’s serious compact cameras

Jack Howard

There are number of key things in the feature set of Sigma’s Foveon-chipped compact cameras, the DP1s, DP1x, DP2 and DP2s that add up to a class of cameras that is, in so many ways, perfect for serious High Dynamic Range Imaging in a very small package.

A three-shot auto bracket burst at +/-3 EVs around the metered exposure at ISO 100 f/7.1 with the Sigma DP1x gives this tone mapped high dynamic range image great detail and color information through an amazingly wide dynamic range. I used the popular HDR program Photomatix Pro to merge and tone map this file, and applied a little perspective adjustment in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to fix keystoning. This is College Hall on Douglass Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and is probably my favorite building at RU.

TOP_Photo_PerspexFix_Photomatix_2 — A three-shot auto bracket burst at +/-3 EVs around the metered exposure at ISO 100 f/7.1 with the Sigma DP1x gives this tone mapped high dynamic range image great detail and color information through an amazingly wide dynamic range. I used the popular HDR program Photomatix Pro to merge and tone map this file, and applied a little perspective adjustment in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to fix keystoning. This is College Hall on Douglass Campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, and is probably my favorite building at RU.

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