Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Probably like many others, I have my D70's little LCD screen more > or less permanently set to the "display histogram" mode :-) > > I can't directly translate in my head a histogram into the visual appearance > of a photo, but I imagine I'll get there soon enough. For now, I generally > just shoot raw and try to "expose to the right" while avoiding blown > highlights. From there, should I have the motivation and energy, alot can > be tweaked during RAW conversion. Bear in mind that the on camera histogram may be a little misleading - it is usually the histogram as applied to a to a JPEG which has had the camera's default conversions applied to it (including a fairly steep S curve) So what you see there has already dumped a lot of the information that would be in the RAW file - including highlight detail Add in - that rather like the old days you still need to tweak the iso of a digital camera (remember shooting slide film at 80 or 125 instead of 100? etc or rating 160 neg film at 125 or 100?) . A digital camera's 100 iso may actually be closer to 80 or 125 - you need to run your own tests - just like the old days :-) tim a