Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Oct 8, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Philippe Amard wrote: > Thanks Tina. > > So overexposure would only fare with the M8 if I follow your point, > and underexposing is not that heretic with others. sorry Philippe, you've lost me now...Steve > Thanks again for the information. > Phil...x > > Tina Manley wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information