Using Active D-Lighting

[MyWuffi]

AD is total crap. You can get the same results in pp when shooting at base ISO.

And in more severe cases HDR is the only way to get it all.

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Yeah? I believe people prefer Active D-Lighting for natural results rather than garbage results that Photomatix creates.

[erjohnson227]

Not to mention that active D-Lighting does something PP cant possibly do, it preserves the highlights by shifting the exposure. This saves otherwise lost highlight information.

[caropreso911]

All These videos are both helpful and entertaining and the music is first class.Thankyou for sharing your know-how. As to the Active D lighting feature, photoshop's shadows and highlights is an incredibly powerful tool that does very much the same and more in my opinion.

[ModulatedSignal]

The D90 has it as well, in addition it has an "extra high" setting. Good video!!

[martinus197333]

Thank you very much for the help. Just got my first Nikon today, after changing from Canon. I ended up with the D700 and the 50mm 1,4.

And great music btw.

[sphiney]

If you set your D-lighting from low to high will that increase the noise too?

[Lilkiwiguy87]

If you set for High or Extra High, you will start to notice noise appearing in the shadows. It is the best to use Low or Medium at the lowest ISO sensitivities such as ISO 100, 200, or 400.

[jackies35]

Can you get Active D lighting if you are using the Canon 5D Mark II??

[Lilkiwiguy87]

I wouldn't know. Active D-Lighting is Nikon's design.

[Metalshad0]

Canon has something that's of the same sort called "Auto Lighting Optimizer", yet by far not as strong in effect as "Active D-Lighting" set to extra strong

[solidliqs]

No, Active D Lighting is Nikon-only. Canon recently came up with something which is supposed to be similar, but it doesn't work. Only Nikon has this nice technology. According to dpreview, the Canon version actually makes no noticeable difference.

[pumpitupwhat]

Is that a vx2100 I see?

:)

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Yes... Old old old VX2100. We use Red system now.

[darkdave25]

That was really useful, thanks! I shot some frames yesterday under bright sunny high contrast conditions and many of them were over-exposed - could that have been the Active D Lighting?? Maybe I'm better off without it.....

[th4ton3guy]

i never use D-Lighting on my camera..

do you think i should start to?

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Active D-Lighting is basically a single-shot HDR, you'll get a lot of noticeable noise on 8 x 10 prints. You're better off without it turned on.

[beaniest]

the font is really hard to read for me, maybe bold or a bigger font size would help us bats.

thx

[Lilkiwiguy87]

I am terribly sorry - from now and on I will maximize the font size for your special needs. It won't be a problem. :)

[MadSon011]

very nice computer setup as well as the camera(s)

[jjandayan14]

ur awesome THANK U

[reassessment]

Awesome, thanks. I was just playing around with active d-lighting the other day. 1 question: when you talk about In-camera HDR do you mean a bracketing burst and then combining the images in post production, or is it a feature the D3 has? Thanks again.

[Lilkiwiguy87]

In-Camera HDR means using multiple exposure and the camera will combine all images after the last frame are being photographed.

You can watch another video "How to use In-Camera HDR".

[Lilkiwiguy87]

Not all D-SLR's by Nikon have this option but I do know D40 / D40X / D80 have D-Lighting (non-Active) that you can apply to images after it's being taken. Lame, huh.

[ydrjtt]

thats sick

didnt think a camera would like ever have that setting