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Sony a7RII pushed bookcase images

August 13, 2015 JimK 3 Comments

One of the things that I usually do with ISOless cameras is make a series of images of my bookcase that have all received the same exposure, but with different in-camera ISO settings. I then use the Exposure control in Lightroom (Lr) to push the “underexposed” images by the amount that they were “underexposed”. I put quotes around the word “underexposure”, because in an ISOless camera, this is not an error.

The a7RII isn’t ISOless, since it changes its conversion gain at the transition from ISO 500 to ISO 640, but I’m doing my usual bookcase test with it anyway.

I set the a7RII on a tripod with the Zony 35/2.8 FE lens attached, determined that a not-very-aggressively-ETTR’d exposure at ISO 3200 was f/8 at 1/30 second. Varying nothing but the ISO setting, I made five more exposures at ISO 1600, 800, 400, 200, and 100. I also made exposures at ISO 640 and 500 that aren’t in this post, but that I’ll tell you about later.

I developed the images in Lightroom CC 2015.1.1 with the Adobe Standard profile and default settings except for the same custom white balance for all the images which was obtained from the middle gray square on the Macbeth chart. Then I set the Exposure control on the ISO 100 image to an extra +5, the Exposure control on the ISO 200 image to an extra +4, the Exposure control on the ISO 400 image to an extra +3, the Exposure control on the ISO 800 image to an extra +2, the Exposure control on the ISO 1600 image to an extra +1, and didn’t adjust the Exposure of the ISO 3200 image.

ISO 3200
ISO 3200
ISO 1600
ISO 1600
ISO 800
ISO 800
ISO 400
ISO 400
ISO 200
ISO 200
ISO 100
ISO 100

The Adobe Standard profile isn’t designed with this kind of extreme pushes in mind, and some people have reported color shifts. Let’s take a look at the Macbeth card.

ISO 3200
ISO 3200
ISO 1600
ISO 1600
ISO 800
ISO 800
ISO 400
ISO 400
ISO 200
ISO 200
ISO 100
ISO 100

The color shifts look minor to me. In the next post I’ll look at noise.

 

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  1. Sony a7RII conversion gain visual changes | The Last Word says:
    August 13, 2015 at 10:49 am

    […] In this post, I’ll present pairs of images made with the a7RII on both sides of the conversion gain transition, corrected in post explained here. […]

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  2. Sony a7RII conversion gain visual changes — base ISO 12800 | The Last Word says:
    August 13, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    […] made with the a7RII on both sides of the conversion gain transition, corrected in post as explained here. The base ISO is 12800. This time, to mix it up a little bit, the Lightroom Exposure move is the […]

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  3. Sony a7RII pushed bookcase images — ISO 12800 base | The Last Word says:
    August 13, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    […] is a continuation of the testing started here, but with a base ISO two stops […]

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