[Leica] Exposure comp and the M9

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Hi Stan,
My general rule is never clip your highlights. This was reinforced a few 
weeks ago in a?printing workshop I took with Charles Cramer. You can recover 
shadow detail (and Charlie had some amazing ways to do this in CS4), but 
highlights?cannot easily be recovered.
There are exceptions (of course!). One is specular highlights (sparkles on 
water, etc.) and the other is that you can recover a bit of highlights in 
RAW processing. But that's cutting it pretty close in Charlie's opinion.
I have my M9 set up to show clipping for over exposure and the RGB 
histogram. Sometimes you're clipping only one channel and a good RAW 
processor can interpolate what it needs to do to recover that channel based 
on the other non-clipped channels.
Hope this helps,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.rgaphoto.com 




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From: Stan Yoder <s.yoder at verizon.net>
To: lug at leica-users.org
Sent: Wed, April 28, 2010 8:53:58 AM
Subject: [Leica] Exposure comp and the M9

The conventional wisdom with the M8 (which I followed) was to underexpose a 
bit to make sure highlights weren't blown, then resurrect shadow detail in 
post. Also, some felt that underexposing at high ISOs kept the noise down.

So, to those of you with M9s, are you continuing to do that for either or 
both reasons (assuming you did so with your M8s)? Or do you no longer find 
it useful or necessary?

TIA,
Stan Yoder

BTW, great to meet some of you at the Savannah LHSA shoot.

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