Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:35 PM 9/9/2007, you wrote: >The M8 has a pretty big dynamic range, especially in the shadows. Recently >I've started using the camera with compensation of -1/3 of a stop to control >any possible highlight blowing. > >Steve Steve - I used to do that, too, but after viewing a tutorial by Jeff Schewe about digital photography and color management, I'm having second thoughts. He advises to be sure the histogram is balanced to the right. He says that highlights contain much more recoverable information than shadows and that, even if the highlights look blown in the preview, they can be recovered in RAW files. Overexposing slightly gives you much less noise in the shadows. He says always bias the exposure as far as you can to the right without completely blowing out the highlights. The only time you shouldn't follow this advice is when using high ISOs because then you would just choose a lower ISO to get the same effect. I haven't experimented with this enough to know how it works, but I'm going to try it. Tina Tina Manley ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI http://www.tinamanley.com