Why is the sky blown out??

[Destin]

I feel this task should be easy with a $2k camera. I

if you think it's tough on a $2,000 D750, try it on a $10,000 Leica

Screw it. Buy a $30k RED cinema camera.

Still won't be able to defeat the laws of physics.

 

[chuasam]

I feel this task should be easy with a $2k camera. I

if you think it's tough on a $2,000 D750, try it on a $10,000 Leica

Screw it. Buy a $30k RED cinema camera.

Still won't be able to defeat the laws of physics.

Actually, a camera with a theoretical infinite dynamic range would make for really weird crappy photos. Everything will be grey and there'll be not absolute black and absolute white.

This thread should read: Buy $2k camera, unwilling to understand the zone system.
Understanding & Using Ansel Adam's Zone System

 

[TheLibrarian]

It was disappointing to get a fancy camera and realize your old point and shoot or phone takes seemingly better pictures. iPhone automatically does hdr. Think I can turn it on on my d5300 but I hear it is not proper to do so and would amount to combining 2 pics in post I gather. My old point and shoot had what i thought was better zoom in a tiny attached lens and better autofocus/ crispness but I'm sure is user error... I hope at least. Giving us too much control might be a problem and back before if we had a blown out sky we probably wouldn't even have known or imagined there was a better way and wouldn't have hesitated to let the camera use it's on board flash if it wanted to.