Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sep 2, 2008, at 8:54 AM, Lottermoser George wrote: > In my experience: > The M8 set to -2/3 > (which is how mine is set 24/7 for all conditions) > will preserve highlight detail in "most" situations. I'm no real photographer, but I echo George... my M8 does the trick, a routine -2/3 in RAW...can do it... Steve > > > As Tina indicated digital imaging is much more like transparency > film than negative film. > Yet, the M8 displays very good, useable dynamic range compared to 5D. > Software allows for successfully reclaiming highlights (to a point); > and what can be pulled out of a shadow from an M8 file continues to > drop my jaw. > > Obviously if one is photographing available light within a room with > sunlight outside a window; any film or sensor will be strained to > hold detail throughout 14 -20 stops. > > As Daniel mentioned - taking a trip to a dealer and working the > camera near a window would quickly answer your concerns. If you do > this, be sure to bracket in one third stop steps and then spend some > time with the files in Lightroom. If you don't have experience with > Lightroom - find someone who does - so that you can truly see > everything within the image file. You will be amazed at these files. > > Fond regards, > George > > george@imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > On Sep 2, 2008, at 4:10 AM, Wyndham Pulman-Jones wrote: > >> The one thing that has held me back from buying an M8 is my dislike >> of the look of blown highlights in digital photos. Almost all of my >> shooting is of people interacting in social and working situations >> - and I always expose by taking incident readings for people's >> faces and letting everything else fall where it may. This >> frequently means that lighter exteriors visible through windows or >> doors are overexposed - but when using fast colour negative film >> there is almost always some tone and character to the overexposed >> area. The same also applies to highlights on people's hair when >> strongly backlit. >> >> When I have used digital (Epson RD-1, Canon 1Ds) I have not liked >> the totally white blown out highlights, fringed with un-natural >> looking chromatic aberation, that often result from shooting in >> this way (when you are not able to worry about exposinig for areas >> of the photo not carrying the narrative interest, which might end >> up significantly overexposed.) >> >> Does the M8 suffer from this just as much as any other digital >> camera? If so, what's the best technique for stopping those >> 'outside the scene' highlights from blowing out? Or is it just not >> possible with the M8 to 'set and forget' exposure in the way that >> you can with incident metering for the latitude of negative film? >> >> (I found some M8 DNG samples which show totally blown out 'through >> the window' highlights which have the digital look that just >> doesn't look right to me: http://rpo.eranet.tv/) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Simon. >> Cambridge, UK. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information