Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Unsworth w33/now expos comp M8
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Fri Sep 14 04:49:53 2007

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

In my DMR experience, this works well.  Exposing so that the histogram is as 
far to the right as possible w/o clipping highlights usually gives the best 
overall print quality.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com