Dynamic Range Priority Fujifilm

[@mianshams]

Our Fuji Professor ❤️

[@BlackEagle352]

Me: buys an x-t3 Fuji: here's the box, it comes with the camera body, neck strap, battery with charger and most importantly the OFFICIAL user manual. Me: manual?!? You mean pal2tech?

[@pal2tech]

FIRST!!

[@vishal_trivedi]

😂👍🏽

[@billymays972]

Damnn i wanted first

[@blockbusterlatefees7713]

😂 255th!

[@Shalin.S.Shah.]

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)

[@pal2tech]

hahahaha! thanks! 🙏

[@AndyK986]

As a recent purchaser of an X-T4, if I need anything to do with Fujifilm, my first stop is pal2tech. Keep up the great work.

[@pinkeshpatel7444]

This is amazing! I’ve had the camera for awhile and tried reading explanations and etc for this feature but never has it made this much sense with visual example! This is one of the best photography/camera channels and THE BEST channel related to Fujifilm cameras! Keep up the amazing videos! 👏

[@pal2tech]

You're very welcome! Thank you so much Pinkesh!

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@shivhaaha]

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

[@pal2tech]

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

[@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".

[@NinaSusanneOfenloch]

I will never switch this feature off again.... Thank you so much, I dare say this is life changing for me 🙂

[@AnthonySmith-sc4zs]

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

[@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.

[@ebouwens]

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

[@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! 🙏

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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 🙏

[@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.

[@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.

[@11jsun]

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

[@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!

[@DMLMachado]

Adoro. Sigo Pal2tec desde sempre. Espetacular.

[@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.

[@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!!!

[@wildebeest773]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@EODM1]

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👍

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much!! 🙏

[@maze400]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@avelc7704]

Just made my first donation ever on youtube. Your channel has been so helpful for me. Thanks!

[@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!! 🙏

[@jacoroelfroberts2667]

Every single video you make add's value to my own work!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you!!

[@pal2tech]

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

[@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.

[@mike-snapitnc-clegg6550]

Chris you fill my head with that fujistical feeling every Friday keep them coming my friend and teacher 👌👍📸

[@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 !

[@mhydeist3610]

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!!

[@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!

[@AndreaDeMatteis]

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

[@joshandsarahride]

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

[@cdreyes81]

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

[@stephenschmid492]

That's surprising how different those two files looked in Capture One vs. how similar they looked in Lightroom. I'd be interested in learning more about why that is!

[@shifteleven]

What happens when you use DR400 is that the camera shoots the raw file at a lower ISO and leaves an instruction that the software should push the image two stops (move the internal exposure slider to +2). My guess there is a software bug in Capture One where it doesn't read the instruction for DR priority and this just shows the raw captured image. If someone wants to check into this claim, one can use an open source library like DCraw to read the raw image and check - at least that's what I did many moons ago

[@stephenschmid492]

@@shifteleven Thanks, Adam. That does seem like a plausible explanation.

[@Tang63]

@@shifteleven does this mean it’s better I open such raw files (where dynamic priority = Strong) only in Lightroom? Will I be able to achieve the same effect as LR, in Capture One if I were to manually adjust the sliders?

[@shifteleven]

@@Tang63 Capture One opens the files with the correct exposure settings as it does in LR

[@Tang63]

@@shifteleven oh I see, then now I’m a little confused because I can’t seem to reconcile your reply with the earlier reply that was explaining the difference in Capture 1 vs LR (as shown in the video). Maybe I’m still too new to photography - but I guess the key takeaway here is that I should be fine editing the photo in Capture 1 and LR. It won’t matter?

[@rogercoaten7526]

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

[@stanvisualseychelles932]

I would be adding some noise reduction in the settings when using Dr 400. BUT man it makes a huge difference. Great video.

[@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.

[@herwarthaug]

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

[@brandonprescott5753]

Another excellent video with technical issues explained in simple terms.

[@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.

[@wjspencer95]

No fuss straight to the point quality guidance - thank you for your videos

[@YSNDDN]

Incredible work, best instructor ever ! You rock man !

[@MitchWebb94]

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

[@pal2tech]

I'm so glad!

[@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!!! 👍🏻

[@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!!

[@robinpalmer9809]

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

[@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.

[@pedroluis412]

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

[@afghanbadboy1234]

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

[@robertofarriol2697]

Eres el mejor, claro en tus explicaciones y preciso en las sugerencias

[@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.

[@primal_aperture_photo]

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

[@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

[@jigmatlundup8787]

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

[@john-wiggains]

Thank you for all your amazing guides!

[@EduCrakie]

Oh baby! Another pal2tech!

[@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 :)

[@broofya3805]

I really like the look „strong“ produces!

[@letsbefrank3]

Note to self...watch more of these before doing a shoot! If only I'd watched this video and the previous one on DR before I shot a wedding group, outside in the sunshine! Doh!

[@s.vancourt9541]

This was driving me nuts until I saw this video. Thanks for the clarification. Fuji needs to release a new edition of the Owners Manual.

[@akshaysreekumar]

excellent tutorial.. so easy to understand

[@michaeltauchert3756]

Hallo, ich habe seit 2 Jahren zwei Fuji Kameras (100v + xt 4) durch deine Videos habe ich einige Dinge gelernt, die mir in keinem deutschen Tutorial so gut erklärt wurden. Vielen Dank für deine sehr guten Tutorials. Aus Lübeck sende ich viele Grüße.

[@peterpol1971]

Thanks Chris for your very informative video's. I learn a lot how to use my Fujifilm camera. My X-T5 actually allows DR 400% and D-range Strong settings already from ISO 500 (instead of ISO 640). Maybe Fujifilm lowered the minimum ISO with some firmware update, which is positive. Greetings from NL.

[@alessandrosbarra3084]

Very interesting and clear as usual. Thanks

[@marciosousa2099]

This videos are insane. So much information. You should be payd by fujifilm. I'm dead serious. You are a strong help to me, I'm improving my photography game because of you. Keep going with the good work. Cheers from Portugal

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Márcio!!! That means a lot to me!!! Cheers!! 🙏

[@perryvalton4245]

Part two is needed please!!

[@gwenandersen]

Fantastic, thank you so much for this clear 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.

[@vladimirkraus1438]

That laughter at 2:57 ... you could play a villain in a movie with this laughter! :D

[@arildthingvoll5967]

You’re the best man, great video!

[@Ghhrjovi]

This is so helpful! Thank you!

[@stevenbancroft389]

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

[@Travel_with_Zied]

thank you so much for thsi video. very well explained

[@Rexyspride]

Your enthusiasm makes me smile every time! So potentially turning DRP on may mean you get more editablity (if that's a word) of JPEG files without the need to shoot RAW. Hmm. I know what I'm doing this weekend then!

[@RandyPollock]

Very useful as I carry my X-T2 around with me daily and try and shoot to where I can use the jpegs and not rely on the RAW files to have a quick turn around on the images by transferring to my phone, slightly editing then posting online.

[@bjoernsviews]

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.

[@PraveenKumar-fs6of]

Very few people are like you . Thanks 🙏

[@WarpedTrekker]

I'm glad. You can stop praying now.

[@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

[@davidak_de]

Thanks for the good explanation!

[@ukolbe5589]

Excellent! Thanks for the great work.

[@nal_er]

AWSOME explainer!

[@ShaunakDe]

This is 400% better than the official Fuji manual.

[@adiboyxbox]

Great video, keep up the good work !

[@pal2tech]

Thank you so much Adnan!! 👍🏻

[@PaprykowyMonarcha]

Excellent video. Thank you!

[@BenEncounters]

But isn't it the same to put the dynamic range to 400 and tone curves down -2 for both settings? (as to use dynamic range priority to strong). And is it stable? I am interested in those setting to do some photogrammetry where the settings should be manual and absolutely the same between all the pictures. Of course depending on the scene the exposure varies a lot, hence using a dynamic range as wide as possible, but it must be stable and not variable. What settings would you suggest for such use case?

[@princetarun]

Last but not the least nice Explanation

[@exposedpaths]

Thanks for a very good description! I wish I had known these settings better before I burned out skies in some of my hike videos... 😁 BTW would you recommend setting d-rng to auto for run-and-gun video with Eterna profile? Or just DR400?