On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > is it better to: > > 1. center the recorded histogram > 2. bias the histogram towards the lighter tones taking care not > no clip any highlights > 3. bias the histogram towards the darker tones taking care not > to clip any of the darker/black tones > > I have a feeling the correct way is #2 or possibly #1 but I am not sure. > Anyone know?
According to links that were posted here last week #2 is the best since the sensor is linear, while the "f stop" light measure is logaritmic. "If you do not use the right-hand fifth of the histogram for recording some of your image you are in fact wasting fully half of the available encoding levels of your camera." http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml anders ------------------------- http://anders.hultman.nu/
