I am not sure that camera manufacturers have too much interest in
protecting the highlights. However you set your meter .. for spot, local
or whole image .. the meter (if you are using it solely) is simply going
to provide information assuming that the metered area is pivoted around
'mid gray' (18% black). Whether the histogram (data range) is broad or
narrow, and the position of the extremes, is totally another problem.
On 2022-01-17 21:18, Terry Pinfold wrote:
Hi All,
camera manufacturers actually set the camera to underexpose a little
bit because this protects the highlights and produces a pleasing result.
However, when shooting in RAW you want to push the exposure towards the
right of the histogram without clipping. The picture may look over exposed
bt if the highlights are not clipped then DT can correct the exposure and
the noise is reduced compared to the SOOC JPG. It is a little more effort
but gives the best picture.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 21:14, Frank<synapse...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 at 01:42, bwh vanBeest<b...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
Thanks for all the reactions to my posting. I initially thought something
was wrong with my camera-DT-combination, but now I learned otherwise. I
have now learned what to do. Still, somehow it is unsatisfactory that a
picture of which you know is exposed correctly is initially displayed in DT
as underexposed.
Regards
Bertwim
What Darktable is actually showing you is that your images are underexposed,
and you can expose farther to the right and still have highlights that are not
blown. You will come to appreciate this if you have the patience. You cannot
trust your in camera histogram for exposure, this is a fact.
I have edited the exposure preset to apply +2 stops on import, this is about
right for my Olympus cameras
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