Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/08

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Subject: [Leica] I have given up
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Wed Feb 8 12:38:02 2006
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Good info! My JPEG curve is the popular, updated version of
the old "White Wedding" curve.

In a digital context, how would one "test" ISO.

Thanks.

Scott

Tim Atherton wrote:

>Bear in mind that the on camera histogram may be a little misleading - it is
>usually the histogram as applied to a to a JPEG which has had the camera's
>default conversions applied to it (including a fairly steep S curve)
>
>So what you see there has already dumped a lot of the information that would
>be in the RAW file - including highlight detail
>
>Add in - that rather like the old days you still need to tweak the iso of a
>digital camera (remember shooting slide film at 80 or 125 instead of 100?
>etc or rating 160 neg film at 125 or 100?) . A digital camera's 100 iso may
>actually be closer to 80 or 125 - you need to run your own tests - just like
>the old days  :-)
>
>tim a
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