Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] About to take M8 plunge - but worried about blown
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Tue Sep 2 21:29:25 2008

Original message:
 
>From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> 

>While I have no experience with the M8 beyond fondling it and drooling   
>on it, I do have extensive experience shooting several models of Canon   
>and Olympus DSLRs. I completely agree with the comments from Tina and   
>others: if you shoot RAW and expose as if you were shooting slide   
>film, you will have better dynamic range than with film.
................................................................................................................................
Same situation here (no M8, only Canon). I use manual exposure 85-90% of the 
time, 
so I don't have to second-guess the camera's decision.  In fact, on sunny 
days I set 
according to the "Sunny-16 rule" and have been getting the best RAW files.

Alan

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