When taking photos out west this past trip (Bryce Canyon especially
comes to mind) the sky was clear blue and the sun intense. I often
couldn't see the screen very well when trying to chimp the histogram.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/5/2011 7:47 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Rawtherapee provides a RAW histo of sorts just before
> demosaicing--takes RAW "WB" in I think and applies a "standard gamma"
> so it says. Interesting, but a bit late by then. CHDK developers said
> it is possible at least after the shot--but slow--they said "hardware
> limited" but didn't go into details. The hack does provide RGB zebra
> mode (I set for half press) and a clipped channel flashes in that color.
> With the tiny sensor there is at best a half stop leeway. It is hard
> to miss stuff flashing at you even in a hurray and that is good. I
> vaguely remember Pentax having some type of Raw histo, but am not sure.
>
>
> Limited unexpected clip, Mike
>
> Oh, see some new Moose shots but quite late and time to get home and
> will ck them later.
>
>
>
>
> Yup, that's why I want the camera to give me much better advice on
> ETTR.
> Using the camera's histogram sometimes fools me and I end up
> overexposing. Usually the raw file's headroom saves me... but not
> always.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/5/2011 7:02 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> The real trick is sussing out the correct chimp that gets the most
>> information in the RAW file and yet won't blow out highlights too
>> much for ACR or Lightroom's graduated density filter to
>> compensate.<g>
>>
>> That little puppy is truly a marvel.
>>
>> --Bob
>
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