Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stan I don't routinely underexpose but there are practical reasons why many excellent photographers do and they consider the trade off reasonable. Clearly it works. To add to what Bob and Tina have said, while you can and probably will routinely recover some detail in your shadows, at high ISO values, underexposure then recovery worsens noise there. That may or may not be significant and you can clip the shadows in Post to ameliorate that if desired. Another trade off. I would also add that in my experience, the clipping indication on your camera LCD histogram is conservative as the preview is based on the jpg conversion settings of your Raw file. Obviously only you can be the judge by experience of what works best for you with your equipment, technique, subjects and intended output. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 29 April 2010 04:43, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > I used to underexpose by 1/3 and sometimes 2/3 stop. But I no longer do > that. LR3 is so good at recovering highlights that I don't worry about it > anymore and I think the files are better exposed correctly. > > Tina > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Stan Yoder <s.yoder at verizon.net> > wrote: > > > The conventional wisdom with the M8 (which I followed) was to underexpose > a > > bit to make sure highlights weren't blown, then resurrect shadow detail > in > > post. Also, some felt that underexposing at high ISOs kept the noise > down. > > > > So, to those of you with M9s, are you continuing to do that for either or > > both reasons (assuming you did so with your M8s)? Or do you no longer > find > > it useful or necessary? > > > > TIA, > > Stan Yoder > > > > BTW, great to meet some of you at the Savannah LHSA shoot. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >