It's true that Wide 2 DR (400% or 2 stops) can leave you with "flat" output (lacks contrast), but lately I've been leaving my S3 at that setting as long as my purpose is to generate a limited number of prints from a shooting session. It's amazing how Wide 2 confines the histogram within its optimal boundary. The Wide 2 histogram is often siginificantly differant than the Auto DR graph.

I always edit before printing and enjoy that process. A levels adjustment is often all that is needed with these Wide 2 files.

I've started to do weddings, and Wide 2 DR definitely helps with sunshine on the wedding dress, and really facilitates jpeg printing. Of course, that means that the bride and groom will have to look at some flat jpegs on the disk of many unretouched files that they might request.


puddleduck wrote:
> If you use Lightroom you are not making the best of the DR of the
> Fuji imho.
>
> Auto DR allows the camera to select the most appropriate DR for the
> scene, but you can adjust this later in Fuji software from 100% up
> to 400%. You can't do this in Lightroom as it is not aware of this
> setting.
>
> If you shoot JPEG leaving it on 400% all the time is not a good
> idea, as you can end up with "flat" JPEGs if the extra DR isn't
> needed. For RAW Auto DR works great.
>
> As Auto DR is a camera setting that only Fuji software can "read" I
> think you'd be better off shooting 400% "just in case" if you
> persist in using Lightroom (which does not support the S5 Pro
> official)
>
>
> --
> -Andy

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