On Pentax cameras, at least, the histogram is being generated from the
embedded, or generated, in the case of live view, jpeg. So you can
afford and might even want some clipping of highlights if you're
shooting raw. How much would depend on the jpeg camera settings since
those directly effect the histogram.
On 1/25/2017 12:41 PM, John wrote:
On 1/24/2017 3:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Bruce Walker wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Larry Colen<l...@red4est.com> wrote:
Also, there are different exposure methodologies. [...]
If you're shooting raw, then you generally want to "expose
to the right", in order to preserve the highlights,
Come again? ETTR actually endangers highlights. It's the shadows that
ETTR is supposed to help with. I sometimes ETTL to avoid clipping
highlights and so preserve them--the exact opposite direction.
OK, I probably used the wrong term for looking at the histogram and
making sure that the tail of it goes as far to the right as possible
WITHOUT CLIPPING. If making sure that the brightest highlights are just
short of clipping is Expose to the left, then that is what I do.
That's how ETTR (Expose To The Right?) was explained to me ... get the
histogram as far toward the highlight side as you can without clipping.
The shape of the Rock of Gibraltar as seen from the Mediterranean Sea
(east face) is an example of what I understand to be a good ETTR
histogram.
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