Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A specific experience I had with RAW processing in LR (It could just as well have been Photoshop) demonstrates that the a sensor has greater latitude than film. I was taking pictures for a repair operation on a large 5-ton piece of hardware in an ill lit area in a museum. It was large enough that one of the workers was up on a ladder. But most detailed mechanism was near the floor. I had to shoot at the M9's maximum ISO. In the images prior to processing, none of the mechanism detail showed. In a .jpg out of the camera, that would have been the appearance. But the RAW file actually had the data, and LR's "fill light" made those details clearly visible without altering the medium and high tones of the pictures. -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.