Two great places for a walkbouts with a camera. tographers where light levels are low and I want the extra dynamic range. I particularly enjoyed my walk around the Dean area.
A lot of photographers prefere ultra high resolution sensors for their landscape photography. However, I like to use the 24mp R6ii for landscapes. I like it because of it’s better Dynamic range, better iso noise and (more importantly) it has a higher diffraction threshold. A camera like the R5 starts to see diffraction as low as f7.1. So If I need an aperture of say f16, in order to record the depth of field in a landscape scene, on a R5, I am already 2.3 stops into the diffraction limit. So my images will have less sharpness due to diffraction, regardless of the sensor’s capabilities or the inherrant sharpness of the len optics. Where as with my R6ii with it’s 24mp sensor, my diffraction limit doesn’t start until a higher f9.6, giving me nearly a stop before diffraction starts to affect my image’ sharpness. While the R5’s 45mp sensor is capable of rendering more detail than the 24mp sensor in my R6ii in perfect situations, I should only shoot upt o maybe f8 or f9 on the R5, and the R6ii can get away with f11 easily. There’s no point in rendering 40% more pixels if those extra pixels are all diffused mush. 45mp is only worth while in good light at low iso values like 100-400 iso and at apertures below f10ish. I could focus bracket with the r5, but that’s a lot of work for walk about photos where tripods aren’t allowed or tollerated. Focus bracketing for landscapes requires a very specific workflow and requires careful camera adjustments between frames. It requires zero movement in the cene between frames too. It demands good tripod technique and a fair amount of post production. Or I can use a R6ii, and shoot hand held in higher iso conditions and utilise the camera’s IBIS. If the tonal range is within the dynamic range of the camera (better at iso 100 than the R5 is at 400iso) then I can shoot a carefully metered sing;e image and extract a clean image from it in Light room with minimal fuss.
