Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For Digital, Ditto Tina, Nathan and others - slide like underexposure and address the rest of it when processing your RAW. BTW much better than slides or film in terms of "adjustment range' whatever the D-gear. Have fun with the new toy :-) Notes: I'm using a Panathing Mark I plus, which I love. Yet, here is a "global warning" though- depending on the camera brand and if using LR you might be disappointed if you convert RAW to DNG - my experience, which I can document for anyone interested in that. Yours phx Nathan Wajsman wrote: > While I have no experience with the M8 beyond fondling it and > drooling on it, I do have extensive experience shooting several > models of Canon and Olympus DSLRs. I completely agree with the > comments from Tina and others: if you shoot RAW and expose as if you > were shooting slide film, you will have better dynamic range than > with film. But the key is to do both of those things. If you shoot > JPEG, you WILL have blown highlights and artifacts of the type you > mention. > > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Wyndham Pulman-Jones wrote: > >> The one thing that has held me back from buying an M8 is my dislike >> of the look of blown highlights in digital photos. Almost all of my >> shooting is of people interacting in social and working situations - >> and I always expose by taking incident readings for people's faces >> and letting everything else fall where it may. This frequently means >> that lighter exteriors visible through windows or doors are >> overexposed - but when using fast colour negative film there is >> almost always some tone and character to the overexposed area. The >> same also applies to highlights on people's hair when strongly backlit. >> >> When I have used digital (Epson RD-1, Canon 1Ds) I have not liked >> the totally white blown out highlights, fringed with un-natural >> looking chromatic aberation, that often result from shooting in this >> way (when you are not able to worry about exposinig for areas of the >> photo not carrying the narrative interest, which might end up >> significantly overexposed.) >> >> Does the M8 suffer from this just as much as any other digital >> camera? If so, what's the best technique for stopping those 'outside >> the scene' highlights from blowing out? Or is it just not possible >> with the M8 to 'set and forget' exposure in the way that you can >> with incident metering for the latitude of negative film? >> >> (I found some M8 DNG samples which show totally blown out 'through >> the window' highlights which have the digital look that just doesn't >> look right to me: http://rpo.eranet.tv/) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Simon. >> Cambridge, UK. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >