Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] Trying to understand M8
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Sat Sep 16 14:02:50 2006
References: <45066CC50009E8DA@ctsmtpout2.frontal.correo> <440b792d0609161114s4b910f6et3382cd081be0e2ba@mail.gmail.com>
 
On Sep 16, 2006, at 11:14 AM, mehrdad wrote:

> one thing to note about digital, it is much like shooting slides, the
> exposure needs to be precise  or you Will have burned highlights.
> (this is one area that that digital needs improvements)

I find the DMR much more forgiving of exposure errors than slide film.  
Yes I do have to be careful not to burn out highlights but setting 
exposure compensation to -1 and matrix pattern I've yet to see a 
burned-out highlight and there's still plenty of detail I can pull out 
of the shadows.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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