In the previous post, we saw that, with standard settings the D4 shows minor clipping in its true raw histogram at the metered exposure for a moderate contrast subject, even though the in-camera histogram looks clipped at that exposure. In this post, I will show what happens when you find the correct ETTR exposure by… [Read More]
Archives for December 5, 2012
Testing for ETTR, part 1
[This is the first in a looong series of posts on the topic. If you want to skip the evolution of my ideas and go right for the conclusions, click here.] Conventional wisdom among camera users, especially if people taking pictures with cellphones count as camera users, is that JPEG is plenty good enough, and… [Read More]