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This is my second more or less extended outing with the new Sony RX100 pocket camera with a large sensor, and I was able to experiment with its built-in HDR settings again.  These can be used hand-held because Sony micro-aligns 3 to 6 quickly shot images and then provides you a single image that would have been the norm plus an HDR'd version that combines the best exposed portions of the three to six photos.

  AFTER I did the first Botanical Gardens gallery for the Aug 9 walk, I checked the in-camera images to see how they were shot and saw that the ones I used on PBase were often the HDR'd versions rather than the normal-single-exposure ones also provided by the Sony RX100.

  If there is a breeze, some of the elements in a 3 to 6 shot HDR'd final image will have moved a bit (or you may have moved a bit too much) and the single 'normal' image may be better but this can also be layered in Photoshop with the combination image provided.  I haven't tried that though, and just used one or the other.
  A compromise for the small size with large sensor is a zoom lens that is only 3.6x.

  There's also an 'auto DRO' setting which, when the dynamic range is too wide for a camera lens, adjusts the brightness and contrast for use with a single shot.  I didn't use that yesterday, as it's not as effective but it does cut down on lost detail.

  The fog was blowing in from San Francisco, and in that low light last night and with the flowers affected by the light wind, I needed to shoot at widest opening to get a decent shutter speed and then there was little depth of field, sometimes preferred, sometimes not.  Even then the Sony did a good job.   There are almost too many options with the Sony, and I tried a few more of them but didn't take notes. Will check the recorded settings later (some key features don't show up on Exif viewers yet). Click on any photo to get the larger version.  Then click on "Next" or "Previous" to see other ones.