Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course that's right, Tina, all other things being equal. But when you're photographing moving people in available dark, sometimes ETTR is just not possible. I'm talking about those situations. And digital doesn't let us burn detail back into truly overexposed highlights like film did. --Peter Tina Manley wrote: > After a lot of experimentation, I have to agree with Thomas Knoll and his > comments in Luminous Landscape that the best signal to noise ration is > obtained if you expose to the right. I'm speaking on this next week in > Wisconsin. You can read more about it in Jeff Schewe's excellent book "The > Digital Negative". It's amazing to me what a difference it makes. > > Tina > > > On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > > > When the M8 first came out, some people reported that they got better > > low-light results by underexposing ISO 640 by one stop and compensating in > > their RAW developer, rather than setting the ISO to 1250. I think Tina was > > one of them. I tried this myself, didn't like either results much, and > > have pretty much stuck to ISO 640 and lower. > > > > Well, things have changed. Today's RAW developers are better, and this > > approach does even better than before. I decided to revisit it with my M8 > > and the current Capture One v. 7. The results are much better than I > > remember with Capture One v.4 (which came with the M8) or even Capture One > > v.6. Here are a couple of real-world pictures taken in my den, with some > > deep shadows. > > > > Here's ISO 640 pushed one stop (top) vs. 1250 (bottom): <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/M8-640_1pushVs1250-NoNR.jpg.html> > > ISO 640 pushed two stops (top) vs. 2500 (bottom) <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/M8-640_2pushVs2500-NoNR.jpg.html>