Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 2/8/06, Tim Atherton <tim@kairosphoto.com> 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 Didn't realize that. I should have thought of it, but I hadn't. That would explain some surprizes I've had. I have also noticed that the cameras ISO is a little different than a lightmeter's ISO. I use a lightmeter quite often with a digital camera. I have it with me anyway on account of the M's and using it comes naturally. In general I have to make adjustments to the results from a hand-held meter but when I compare them with the camera's suggestion, my adjustment is more or less what the internal metering arrived at anyway. The exception is shooting down at ice-rinks, particularly when polar bears are part of the act. Daniel