World's First Built-In ND Grad, But Does It Work?

[dustyE1]

Posted recently - I found the example photos very informative.

[Ian]

Haha! Click-bait title - and yes, as he finds out, it does work.

One aside, I was surprised how poor the video quality was - only 1080p rather than 4K and on the soft side.

Ian

[wanderer]

I thought about this when it was first announced.
Does it work on raw files or just jpegs?
I notice it is operated through touch screen. I have that turned off as I was getting to many random images, not least if my nose connected with the screen.
I find that the current version of Lightroom does a very good job of ND.
My view is that is a nice addition but not essential.
Perhaps incorporating polarisation would be of more use.

[Punkawallah]

I, too, find LR does a pretty good job of mimicking a grad filter!

[Ian]

I thought about this when it was first announced.
Does it work on raw files or just jpegs?
I notice it is operated through touch screen. I have that turned off as I was getting to many random images, not least if my nose connected with the screen.
I find that the current version of Lightroom does a very good job of ND.
My view is that is a nice addition but not essential.
Perhaps incorporating polarisation would be of more use.

It does record to a RAW file if you wish (JPEG also). You can make the adjustments to positioning using the adjustment wheels and 4-way pad as well as the screen.

Ian

[Bruce Clarke]

Unless it can increase the DR of what you can capture, I don't really see the point. Much better done in Lightroom Classic with far more control and power.

[BDennis]

It’s a nice feature if you want high quality JPEGs straight out of camera and don’t want to do a lot of post process on RAW files.

When I first saw this in the announcement video I thought they’d done it as a bezier curve on the touch screen but it is a straight line. Maybe that is enough but what about a horizon with mountains, won’t your snowy mountain peaks be darkened?

Also if you do a RAW edit in camera can the Grad Filter be applied afterwards like some other things can?

I wonder when they will start combining computational features like this and High Res shots or stacking. I doubt this camera has enough processor and memory to support computational combinations and perhaps this is an early iteration of what is to come in a future model.

Bill

[KennyC]

I simply don't care it if works. Any manipulation that I need will be done in post on a big screen where I can properly judge what I am doing. My OM1 already has a bunch of gimmics that I will likely never use and I don't need or want any more nonsense.