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

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Subject: [Leica] Trying to understand M8
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Sat Sep 16 19:14:31 2006
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On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:12 PM, mehrdad wrote:

> Doug, the highlights is a different story
>

Yes, but but setting exposure compensation to -1 stop I don't get ANY 
burned-out highlights.  The fact remains that the DMR does not follow 
the rule-of-thumb, if there is one, that digital is as unforgiving of 
exposure errors as slide film.  I do not find that to be true with the 
DMR.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

> 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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