This exercise is a continuation of the last, but requiring five scenes in a variety of settings and ranges. Here is the first. I will add more as the week progresses. The image was captured in P mode with matrix metering and wide-area auto-focus. The camera was then set to spot metering and single focus, and meter readings taken at each of the spots indicated with an exposure setting. The image shows a middling dynamic range, with 3.3 stops between the darkest and lightest elements.
This scene is dynamic in the extreme. The above shows an exposure with no highlight clipping, which would have occurred initially in the hemi-window top.
I engaged HDR (which produces JPG only) and achieved a somewhat better result, better meaning more visible detail in larger areas of the image. Calculations show a dynamic range of 8 stops. Below are corrected versions of both captures, as well as a 100% detail comparison. The RAW capture shows more noise, but (at least to my eye) produces more appealing color.
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This was shot from a second-floor window on a rare cloudy day, sun at about 45° left. Dynamic range is a middling 3 stops.
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Late afternoon, sun approximately 20° behind, camera pointed 90°, 8.3 stop dynamic range.
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