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Ray-CubeAce Posted at 1-8 01:16
You will have to use something like photoshop and stitch each horizontal pan separately and save. Then turn each file 90 degrees and re-import to stitch each line of images again. This is still slightly easier to do than working with a DSLRs output, although with a DSLR you are not limited to three by three images.
Then again, you have to be really gifted to make the DNG output look better than the resulting jpgs straight from the camera. If you have been heavily into stills post-processing this will not be a problem but I'm guessing you are not or you would know this. No disrespect but on photography forums, people get really disappointed when they can't make their raw files look better than the cameras jpg output. The output of a DNG file is no larger than the jpg. It is just easier to recover dynamic range, correct colour and adjust the amount of sharpness you need.
To get the real best from DNG, you have to shoot for DNG and this will mean the JPG out of camera will look rubbish, assuming you're using DNG because you are in a challenging shot with low light and/or high dynamic range, and not in good light with low DR/contrast shot. I'd guess if people in those forums are not able to beat the OOC JPG then they don't know how to use DNG to get the full dynamic range from the camera. For example, you'd use the histogram to shoot to the right, where you get the shot as light as possible without clipping the highlights and then reduce it back down in post. This would give the best possible details in the shadows without losing the highlights. BUT this would lead to a horrible JPG straight out the camera if it "developed" that DNG.
So IMO you can get much better output from DNG but you need to know where it best works. In unchallenging (good light, not too much DR) conditions the OOC JPG will be 90+% of what you could get from DNG. But in challenging conditions the DNG with a good amount of post will wipe the floor with OOC JPG. |
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