Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: the dynamic range of digital
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Sep 19 13:20:35 2006

B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:

> And of course, if one routinely underexposes by a stop, one is not only
> avoiding overexposure, one is also discarding about 20 percent of all the
> information captured by the sensor. ;-)

???  can you explain  ???

I typically set the DMR to underexpose 1/2 to 1 stop (RAW files) and I
rarely if ever see clipping at either end of the histogram.

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


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