Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually Bob placing your histogram in that direction of over exposing a slide or digital capture is not an option a photographer happens to have at all and not for any conceivable reason. Once you've lost detail in your highlights their gone. So yes it is in a sense "mindless". As doing so indicates a complete lack of knowledge of what one is doing. And even if in working with negative materials you expose your highlights too far to the top of the curve no amount of under development is going to address the situation. - you have to expose with highlights in mind to you can't just develop for them. Mark William Rabiner > From: Bob W <leica@web-options.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:28:21 -0000 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Question about M8 exposure > >> Typically when I'm standing next to a person using a DSLR or >> M8 if they look >> at their screen at all it will pop up rally over exposed. >> Same as when I've seen peoples stuff on their laptops. >> Mass over exposing mindlessness. > > What makes you think it's mindless? > > If it looks over-exposed on the screen there's a good chance that they are > exposing to the right of the histogram deliberately, to maximise the amount > of information where it's most useful. Then on the PC you adjust the tone > curve as required to distribute the tonal values as you wish across the > image, making full use of the dynamic range without introducing noise. > > It's no different in principle, and no more or less mindless, than exposing > for the shadows and developing for the highlights, which are perfectly > respectable things to do in film photography. > > You should perhaps understand things a little before you start tossing the > insults around, and maybe give your fellow photographers a little credit > for > knowing what they're doing. > > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information