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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: "the dynamic range of digital"
From: schneiderpix at mac.com (Robert Schneider)
Date: Tue Sep 19 19:23:39 2006
 
B. D. Colen 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. ;-)

Actually, because of the linear nature of digital capture, it's more  
like throwing away about 50 percent.

Whatever floats your boat. . . .

rs
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