Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's important to keep in mind that that motto was for negative processes, and that pretty much the opposite held true for slide film (ie don't blow the highlights, there's no getting them back). The thing to remember with digital, monochrome or not, is that it is a positive, not negative process. The old warnings still hold true ... don't blow the highlights. On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats John! I'm totally jealous... > Sorry you have such tough choices to make; life's a bear ;-) > Back in the day, for landscapes anyway, the motto was expose for the > shadows and let the highlights go. With digital color, it's expose to the > right, but don't clip to the right. I wonder what you will find with the > MM. > Best of light and congratulations again, > Bob > ew Schwartz >