Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can see your point, though the jpgs I looked at on the site you mentioned (I could only look at the embedded jpgs) would have passed my criteria (but I don't take much color, so I'm just a hack). Your best bet sounds like it would be to take a digital card into a shop that has an M8 and ask them to let you do some test shots. I suspect that only you can judge the results. If I remember correctly Lightroom or at least Photoshop has some tools to help you pull some details out of the extreme highlights. But in general, I'd compare digital capture to color transparencies, not to color negative films. There are so many benefits of digital over color negative films that even if I'd have to sacrifice one thing on my wish-list, there are so many others that are so much easier to deal with than they are in film (color temperature ... consistency across a whole shoot in a social situation, for example) that I'd still opt for digital when it comes to color. This from a die-hard film addict. Daniel On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Wyndham Pulman-Jones <simonpj@mac.com> wrote: > The one thing that has held me back from buying an M8 is my dislike of the > look of blown highlights in digital photos. Almost all of my shooting is > of people interacting in social and working situations - and I always > expose by taking incident readings for people's faces and letting > everything else fall where it may. This frequently means that lighter > exteriors visible through windows or doors are overexposed - but when > using fast colour negative film there is almost always some tone and > character to the overexposed area. The same also applies to highlights on > people's hair when strongly backlit. > > When I have used digital (Epson RD-1, Canon 1Ds) I have not liked the > totally white blown out highlights, fringed with un-natural looking > chromatic aberation, that often result from shooting in this way (when you > are not able to worry about exposinig for areas of the photo not carrying > the narrative interest, which might end up significantly overexposed.) > > Does the M8 suffer from this just as much as any other digital camera? If > so, what's the best technique for stopping those 'outside the scene' > highlights from blowing out? Or is it just not possible with the M8 to > 'set and forget' exposure in the way that you can with incident metering > for the latitude of negative film? > > (I found some M8 DNG samples which show totally blown out 'through the > window' highlights which have the digital look that just doesn't look > right to me: http://rpo.eranet.tv/) > > Thanks, > > Simon. > Cambridge, UK. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >