Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think Tina is right and that what she says applies not only to the M8 but also to a Canon DSLR. Lookng at my pictures from last weekend, which include some nighttime shots in Bath and well as some shots with seemingly blown highlights from the ferry to Dover, I have to conclude that there is very much a limit of what you can recover from the shadows without inducing ugly color noise. Of course, one can always convert to B&W :-) Nathan Tina Manley wrote: > At 07:07 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote: >> So, when shooting the M8, err on the side of underexposure; if >> the historgram starts at 125 and goes to the left you still can have an >> outstanding image. > > But have you tried it the other way? Supposedly the shadows will have > much less noise and the highlights that look blown are not really if > you expose so the histogram goes to the right. I haven't experimented > enough to know yet, but I will. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI > http://www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands *Opportunistic Image Acquisition* General photography: http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville: http://www.frozenlight.eu/fotosevilla Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!