Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:33 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote: >Tina, > >I knew of the under-exposure trick and use it to protect the >highlights when I can. >You're now referring to another school advocating over-exposure. >Could you sum up what the rationale is as it goes against my own >experience.of blow out highlights. >TIA >Phil..x Hi, Phil - All other digital cameras, except the Leica M8, give better details in the shadows if you overexpose slightly. There is more information in the highlights that can be rescued using ACR or Lightroom's Recovery slider - or similar software by other manufacturers - when you shoot Raw. From everything I've read the shadows suffer more from underexposure than the highlights do from overexposure. This is the opposite of what everybody expected because we're used to working with slide film and exposing for the highlights. Think back to B&W film and expose for the shadows seems to be the rationale for digital. Except Leica, who, it seems, took advantage of the ability to compress the highlights more than the shadows to make smaller files. Tina Tina Manley ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI http://www.tinamanley.com