Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] Trying to understand M8
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Sat Sep 16 16:12:17 2006
References: <45066CC50009E8DA@ctsmtpout2.frontal.correo> <440b792d0609161114s4b910f6et3382cd081be0e2ba@mail.gmail.com> <3be709c70290f30ae73783d481a0fbd9@earthlink.net>

Doug, the highlights is a different story

On 9/16/06, Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 16, 2006, at 11:14 AM, mehrdad wrote:
>
> > one thing to note about digital, it is much like shooting slides, the
> > exposure needs to be precise  or you Will have burned highlights.
> > (this is one area that that digital needs improvements)
>
> I find the DMR much more forgiving of exposure errors than slide film.
> Yes I do have to be careful not to burn out highlights but setting
> exposure compensation to -1 and matrix pattern I've yet to see a
> burned-out highlight and there's still plenty of detail I can pull out
> of the shadows.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
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  regards, mehrdad

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