Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't think letting the highlights go was ever an option for serious shooters of black and white. Not even 8x10 sheet film users. You expose for shadow detail sure but the more important thing is where important high tones are falling on the shoulder. And that's from exposure too. Exposure controlling the shadows and development controlling the tonal different or contrast between the high tones and the shadows is the way film works. But its not the way photographers work. Both for slides and negs the high tones have to not be exposed over the shoulder. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:27:32 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] MM - first impressions > > It's important to keep in mind that that motto was for negative processes, > and that pretty much the opposite held true for slide film (ie don't blow > the highlights, there's no getting them back). The thing to remember with > digital, monochrome or not, is that it is a positive, not negative process. > The old warnings still hold true ... don't blow the highlights. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Congrats John! I'm totally jealous... >> Sorry you have such tough choices to make; life's a bear ;-) >> Back in the day, for landscapes anyway, the motto was expose for the >> shadows and let the highlights go. With digital color, it's expose to the >> right, but don't clip to the right. I wonder what you will find with the >> MM. >> Best of light and congratulations again, >> Bob >> ew Schwartz >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information