Dynamic Range Priority Fujifilm

Dynamic Range Priority setting on Fujifilm cameras and how it affects the highlights, shadows, and contrast of the photos.
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[@donsylvester5275]

Congrats Chris, you're making this "Fuji Buttons & Settings" series super interesting and easy to comprehend. What's weird is that your info is fundamental to the proper operation of the camera ... how is it possible that Fuji doesn't cover this in a comprehensive product manual?!? The way you 'test' to gather and confirm facts separates you from the rest. You're winning minds and hearts ... please keep going.

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Watching this video, it feels like if we have had KZbin and Pal2tech in 90s, we'd be rolling in a totally different photography universe! (Specially of Fujifilm)

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[@chorton53]

Everytime I watch one of these videos It's like I have a new camera. Cheers !

[@JoseMariaOliveira]

I love your videos about the Fujifilm cameras. I bought recently my first Fuji, after a whole lifetime as Nikonian (since the film cameras). I have no doubt that the way you promote this brand and their philosophy of pictures was important for my decision (you should tell them that). However, there is one issue I would like you to improve in your videos, which is not hard or time consuming: when you start one video referring (as is the case with this one) that there is one other episode we should watch prior to this one, PLEASE put the link in the description. Sometimes I have to go try to find the previous video and since I got to the Fujimania very recently I obviously did not watch (yet) all your other videos. Thank you for your great work, you've been the most important and more reliable source of information online about my own camera. Really thank you.

[@11jsun]

Learned so much watching videos on the dynamic range setting and DR priority. Transformed my experience with my xt5

[@wilderbeest773]

Thank you. The best tutorial on the subject I have found on KZbin.

[@showdaKOs]

Really thanks for all the hard work you're putting explaining all this to people like me! Am an amateur and a passionate, but with my first "serious" camera as a Fuji X-S10, and, clearly, am lost in all the settings. Working my way up with your help !

[@primal_aperture_photo]

An outstanding video as usual! Such a great explanation of the dynamic range settings! Thank you Chris!

[@ebouwens]

I've ignored these settings for many years. Thanks for finally teaching me about using them.

[@AndreaDeMatteis]

Again, such a useful setting explained in such a simple way. Thank you!

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[@jwinte]

As always a phenomenal learning nugget. Keep up the amazing work you do, Chris. I always discover something new when I watch your videos. Thanks!

[@tonyelsom]

Another good and informative vlog thanks Chris. Dynamic range is very important to my photography as I shoot a lot of sunrise and sunsets. I always expose for the sky and bring back the shadows in Capture 1.

[@spyhunter6411]

You do the absolute best job of giving both the most information and explaining it in a way that is digestible. I wish there was a channel of this quality for all of my hobbies.

[@vgold4286]

True

[@Hugmir]

I bow in respect for what you have achieved with your fuji tutorial coverage. I definitely can learn a few lessons from you - beside all the wisdom explicitly included in the videos.

[@mjfalcon007]

Thank you for explaining both of these features in two videos. I have been shooting Fuji X cameras for around 8 years or more and I never really used the DR feature and certainly not the Priority feature in recent years. I’ll be experimenting with this as I can see it being helpful especially in client work with shooting families and weddings. Thank you for all your hard work and clear illustrations 🙏

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[@hdh4u]

I decided to buy a Fuji X-t4 a few weeks ago. The operating concept interested and convinced me. I found this channel three days ago and I already found a lot of tips that I didn't know before. Thanks for the educational videos.

[@rogercoaten7526]

As always, super instruction that I didn’t know about!

[@blutac318]

I always appreciate how much information you can put into a short video, Chris. These last ones about DR settings gave been so helpful understanding really confusing features, for me. Thank you so much, as always. Have a great weekend! Andrew

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Andrew! You too buddy!!! 👍🏻

[@nicbui]

This is amazing! My photos were coming out super noisy and I couldn’t understand why. There were so much grain in them. I actually stumbled across this video and have made it a thing to watch your videos every morning when I wake up. This has helped me so much to understand my setting and why there has been so much grain. Thank you!!!

[@herwarthaug]

thank you so much. it's so much fun to learn using my new X-T3 by watching your great videos!

[@AxCYeR]

tremendously useful and entertaining videos you've got there, i'm glad i stumbled upon your channel a while ago! keep 'em comin'! all the best from germany

[@brandonprescott5753]

Another excellent video with technical issues explained in simple terms.

[@edjefferson9175]

OK these two explanations of DR improved my photography greatly in a very short time. I just captured an image of our full black cat completely backlight by a window on a clear sunny day covered in snow. Amazing. It looks very close to my vision. Thank you so much!

[@traceybartlam7737]

Which did you use? DR400 or DR priority? I have had issues and am trying to see if one of these would solve it but I also noticed I had a tone curve set - pretty sure it wasn’t me as I wouldn’t know what to set 😂 my camera is used and I thought I’d reset everything but found another setting I wouldn’t change was also not correct so feeling a little confused at the moment! Glad you got your cat photo as that sounds a tricky one to shoot

[@pedroluis412]

Every video I learning more about my camara. Thank you.

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Thank you for all your amazing guides!

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Priceless information! I like the way you teach. It's very easy to learn from you. THANK YOU !

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So nice of you!! You are most welcome my friend!!!! 🙏

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[@pal2tech]

That's awesome Jaco!! Thank you so much for letting me know! 👍

[@maze400]

Glad you said it at the end because I was thinking how muddy the shadows were.

[@joshandsarahride]

Awesome video, again. Always to the point, informative and enjoyable to watch. Cheers Pal!

[@robinpalmer9809]

wow! great explication of confusing settings. Much clearer now. Thanks Chris!

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I can't tell you how helpful these videos are. Thank you so much!

[@pal2tech]

I'm so glad!

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Incredible work, best instructor ever ! You rock man !

[@D3lor34n]

Thank you for the good explanations. I'm still somewhat new on Fuji after decades of Nikon and just completely ignored those settings because it didn't occur to me that some of those settings have meaningful impact on the raw files. I'll start to work with them when appropriate from now on, so thank you for enlightening me.

[@nakatosh8020]

Thank you - I've been shooting with Fuji for over a year now, but without this video I wouldn't have known that this function existed and what it did

[@gavinarnoldgoodman]

Thanks for showing this i have bene wondering similar things and trying similar things lately. i am not that crazy about the flat look the strong dynamic range setting gives out of camera in LR but have definitely noticed the increased noise. perhaps i will go back to just using the 400% which seems to look more pleasing straight out of cam and less noisy.

[@alessandrosbarra3084]

Very interesting and clear as usual. Thanks

[@pinkbono]

Thx for your clear explanations, I'm a former 20 years Canonist and it really helped me much to better understand my X-T3. The swap from Canon to Fuji was really confusing to me.

[@gwenandersen]

Fantastic, thank you so much for this clear explanation.

[@CarlosLopezES]

Thank you! I bought a Fuji XT4 a few weeks ago and you are the Fuji Master on the network! I love the content! For me, DR200 or 400 it's the way to go, strongs looks like washed colors for me, but it's interesting in some cases without no option!

[@akshaysreekumar]

excellent tutorial.. so easy to understand

[@pipolapointe]

I love to follow your tutorials, you make them so alive, thanks you from Switzerland 👌📸

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Glenn!! Cheers to you!!

[@Travel_with_Zied]

thank you so much for thsi video. very well explained

[@ZangLussuria]

Nice to know this. Would work well for my quick travel photos. For portraits, I'd use something with less noice but for general photos, this will save a lot of time since it's mostly for documentation.

[@alavallee2]

Would love to see more on this topic!! Thanks :)

[@Ghhrjovi]

This is so helpful! Thank you!

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i learned everything about my fuji xe4 from you! many many many many thanks!!!!!!

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I've learnt more in the last hour from watching your video's!! Than I have in years of watching other channel's thank you👍

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Thank you so much!! 🙏

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Excellent! Thanks for the great work.

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Excellent video. Thank you!

[@MustWorkWeekends]

Another great video! Thank you!

[@davidak_de]

Thanks for the good explanation!

[@AlainLafleche1]

Interesting video. I think this is something that you can work in post also but it is a very instersting option to play with and get better results direct from the camera.

[@jigmatlundup8787]

Greeting from the remote corner of the Himalayas! Thank you for an another interesting topic.

[@mightyboessu]

Thanks to that video. I never understood really what that setting should be. Now I know. I have an addition to this: If you set DR Priority to Strong and you're in the ISO range of 320 up to 640, the camera stets it automatically to weak (and it switches the whole thing "off" if your ISO setting is below 320). I think that's important to know from the usability side; especially if you have a camera with a physical wheel for the ISO settings. In that case you can set it as preparation and switch it off via ISO. Finally, we have to find out what "Auto" really means. My guess is it will use the setting automatically according to the histogram (activate it if there are too dark or too bright areas) and Auto ISO settings together. Higher ISO settings do lose dynamic range, so sometimes it is better to use lower ISO settings over pushing the dynamic range. At least that would sound a bit smart. ;-) But I think that's hard to find out really. It would make sense that Fuji would explain that to the users a bit better. It would be another useful tool if we would know better what it really does "automagically".

[@arildthingvoll5967]

You’re the best man, great video!

[@nedimozerhosol5545]

It was very useful. Thank you.

[@Sina3gs]

If I'm not mistaken there is also a hdr mode in some of fuji cameras that stacks multiple pictures together. Would love to see a comparison about that too!

[@longboardfella5306]

The Auto DR priority sounds useful because Auto dynamic range is limited to 200% as you've previously explained but if Auto DR can dynamic select Strong then that's similar to 400% but with the benefit of allowing camera to select lower floor iso if scene is not high contrast so you should get richer colour. I will experiment with it. I use LR and Topaz Denoise so can live with noise but lower iso preserve richer colour which is decreased if floor is 640or higher. So this sounds a great setting

[@AnthonySmith-sc4zs]

I searched for this and I thought to myself “I hope pal2tech has a video on this…” ❤❤❤

[@nal_er]

AWSOME explainer!

[@duhetelo]

..great job pal2tech,thanks..

[@backwoodstrails]

Very good video and explanation! Keep in mind, the camera meter only knows 18% gray, so it depends on what metering mode and what the meter is looking at. You have to know exactly what your meter is looking at and adjust for middle gray with your exposure. Also note, when you are using your exposure compensation dial (when in the automatic mode), you are not setting it to underexpose or overexpose the image....what you are doing is "correcting for proper exposure" . There are professional photographers that don't understand this. With digital cameras you can just use the histogram and adjust accordingly. Makes us old "Zone System" guys dinosaurs!

[@MuzikaBox]

Thank you so much. I finally understand all those DR settings in Fuji camera. To sum up, to preserve most highlights, you should shot in RAW and set DR Priority in STRONG, and bring up the shadows in LR/C1 as you wish. For jpeg, I would set DR to 400% instead of setting the DR Priority. Yes you will not be able to preserve as many highlights as the DR Priority, but the overall image looks much more contrasty if you use DR for jpeg.

[@perryvalton4245]

Part two is needed please!!

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Wow it was a big mistery for me... Thank you!!!

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Wow. I mean I’m a beginner on Mirrorless area and your videos help me tremendously. Thanks for your contents

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much!!

[@iSchneggs]

WOW! Informative! Thx!

[@stevenbancroft389]

Great video, as always. You showed an exposure meter in the video, but I cannot find it in my XT-4.

[@gabequezada2066]

excellent video...ty

[@DeclicPhotography]

this was cool, thank you!

[@pleasedrivefaster873]

We NEED to know more about the differences in the RAW files!

[@roachinfest13]

Surely it won’t make a difference? The RAW should still just be a RAW, the DR settings are just post processing the highlights and shadows of the JPEGs in camera and giving you a preview in the evf.

[@appleskyTIA]

@@roachinfest13 take a look at it's old dr video. it' process before the raw file, so it does have a effect on raw file, which is pretty strange....

[@HenriPierreChavaz]

DR is a trick that make the dial ISO 2 or 4 times the sensor IS0 (BTW this explains why you need to dial at least 320/640 ISO for camera with sensor from the X-Trans III, and why it was 400/800 with older sensors. Thus raw files are affected by DR but not how one would naively thinks.

[@cdreyes81]

I'm going to be trying this with my real estate shoot today. I think DMP might be a winner

[@broofya3805]

I really like the look „strong“ produces!

[@countryhorse479]

You are the man! 😍😍 I’m a big fan of you from India… I have less than 1 year of experience in photography and it’s been only 8 months now since I started using Fuji camera… I spent almost 6 months to understand the Fuji camera and photography before buying the camera through your videos… each and every other video you post is a not just an informative content but you share your experience… That’s what a guru(REAL TEACHER) does.. I had so much of confusions with this dynamic range topic so I actually stopped using this setting at all.. now after watching this video it’s really a great eye opener and I am going to try this out.. Thank you sooooo much,!

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much my friend! 🙏

[@adiboyxbox]

Great video, keep up the good work !

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Adnan!! 👍🏻

[@bjoernsviewsbjornwolfmulle3295]

Another very interesting video. Honestly I never used higher dynamic range or the D Range priority setting so far. But I'll give it a try on the next sunrise shots. I am really interested in the quality of the files. It looked kind of strange in Capture One, which I am using for developing the raw files.

[@ColinRobertson_LLAP]

As a real estate photographer who constantly shoots in very high dynamic range situations, I’m sorely tempted to grab a XT-4 and 10-24mm lens and see how these settings might help improve my workflow!

[@RichardBO9]

Wow! Great video. I have to be honest and say more than once I have gotten frustrated with my Fuji gear and put it aside and gone back to shooting my D850. My frustration has mostly been around shadows. Your explanations of how it handles dynamic range have really helped me understand the complexities of this camera. For that, I am extremely grateful and thankful. Again, great job!

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Richard!! 🙏

[@debutguitar5302]

Thank you this was helpful, still getting to know my XT3, my xt20 is pretty much on auto lol

[@RickyB349]

You are the man.. A hero!!!!!

[@gary1322]

Hi Chris, Thank you for making this video. From my understanding, the DR priority tool have a RAW file to protect more high light and then raise the shadow to display the detail of the low light, so the result is more noise and lost detail in low light, however, the Dynamics Rang setting trend to neutral. Personally speaking prefer to use Dynamics Rang setting only.

[@rob6310]

I have noticed that DRP seems to only work well in AF-S mode. If you touched on this, I missed it. Thanks for the thorough review!

[@markusritzmann9678]

Man your explanations are awsome and easy to understand. i'm using fujifilm x-cameras since over 2 years but never used DR 200 & 400 because of fear of noise :) haha, but that it combines the ISO values and pre processing increases the DRin RAW? I didn't know it still after over Fuji-x 20'000 exposures until your last video!!!! looking forward for new videos and fuji2tech :) Stay save and greetings from Switzerland

[@princetarun]

Last but not the least nice Explanation

[@akcivan]

Thanks for the info sir

[@pal2tech]

Always welcome

[@robinsonsadventures2174]

Superb video

[@owlmedicine5023]

with the release of the new style brushed in capture one 21 im wondering about the selective lifting of shadows in Cap1 vrs the D rangen informing whole image. i would love to see how the end result shadow noise would be post edit! in fact im gonna try it out today! thanks PAL2TECH!

[@monre4892]

Great vídeo, thanks

[@pal2tech]

Thanks Monre!!!!!! Appreciate the feedback man!! 👍

[@photo_ginnie]

You're awesome! Please don't stop=)

[@icogicog8287]

Very intriguing. Thanks for making it so clear. It is interesting to me ( as a Fuji RAW shooter) how much effort Fuji has place in getting JPEG out of camera that look as a finished product. Does not necessarily appeals to me but I can see its usefulness and I don’t think that other camera companies have put as much effort into their own cameras. I was also intrigued by what happened to the RAW file when using this adjustment (I am not fully sure what happened there with the RAW file). Also the difference between Lightroom and Capture One is mind blowing. Would love to see a further deep dive into that story.

[@pleasedrivefaster873]

I shoot RAW+JPEG with some of the FUJI X BLOG presets dialed in on the JPEG... often I find myself chasing the colors and look of the in camera JPEG when I go to edit the RAW file. With the Fuji it's possible to get a very stylized look in camera and often I don't even consider editing the RAW files anymore.

[@icogicog8287]

Understood. Many way to skin the (poor) cat. I do prefer to do my own RAW edits. On the other hand I love to frame my photos using the Acros plus red so not to be distracted by color. Works very well for landscape photography. The issue I had with doing JPEG/RAW is the amount of data (especially with the GFX 100) that it generates and the number of files to go through. But each one of us has our own style and needs and it is great that Fuji manages to satisfy many

[@fredbloggs545]

@@pleasedrivefaster873 This! Not used software on a RAW file for a while now as I shoot my Fuji camera RAW+JPEG with custom film simulations, JEPG straight out of the camera now. The RAW is for if I want to go back to the images and apply a different film simulation in Fujifilm X RAW Studio to *EXACTLY* match the camera output. I spend time getting what I want while shooting and using whatever film simulation I think would work in that situation, like loading different 35mm film for differing lighting and colour reproduction. I find myself thinking about colour a lot, something that I never really bothered with on my dSLR as I would choose the colour long after the shot when sat in front of a monitor. I now think about where I am going to shoot, the possible light etc., and then "load" the "film" into my Fuji. LR was tiresome and I grew bored of photography. I got into the mindset of having RAWs to process and could not then be bothered to post-process them. I enjoyed capturing images but not processing them, hence I now shoot JPEG. I've gone from LR user back to being a photographer. I get the itch to shoot because Fujifilm make JPEG so easy and there is instant upload to share with family. Shooting Fuji JPEG custom film simulations gives me the benefits of "film" without the hassle of using film.