Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] Underexposing Leica M8
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon Oct 8 12:57:46 2007
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At 03:33 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>Tina,
>
>I knew of the under-exposure trick and use it to protect the 
>highlights when I can.
>You're now referring to another school advocating over-exposure. 
>Could you sum up what the rationale is as it goes against my own 
>experience.of blow out highlights.
>TIA
>Phil..x

Hi, Phil -  All other digital cameras, except the Leica M8, give 
better details in the shadows if you overexpose slightly.  There is 
more information in the highlights that can be rescued using ACR or 
Lightroom's Recovery slider - or similar software by other 
manufacturers - when you shoot Raw.  From everything I've read the 
shadows suffer more from underexposure than the highlights do from 
overexposure.  This is the opposite of what everybody expected 
because we're used to working with slide film and exposing for the 
highlights.  Think back to B&W film and expose for the shadows seems 
to be the rationale for digital.  Except Leica, who, it seems, took 
advantage of the ability to compress the highlights more than the 
shadows to make smaller files.

Tina

Tina Manley
ASMP, NPPA, EP, PI
http://www.tinamanley.com 


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