| Surely the best thing to do is to just shoot normally, expose properly
| and, if the Nikon base curve is excessively boosting highlights, use a
| different curve. I certainly wouldn't want to go around underexposing
| my shots just to suit a particular raw development tool whether this
| is dt or not.
|
| You might try one of the Pentax curves I use, they don't seem to
| ever cause this problem for me. I assume that the Nikon curve was
| constructed to mimic as far as possible the appearance of jpegs
| straight out of the camera and that involved some sort of bright tone
| lift. If you aren't worried about 'exact' match of jpeg and 'out of
| the box' processed raw files there seems nothing wrong with just using
| a curve that doesn't have effects you don't want.
You prompted me to go look at all of the preset base curves and it's
interesting how much they differ. The Pentax curve is indeed one of
the least highlights-lifting and the 'nikon like alternate' (used
by default for my Nikon model) is one of the strongest.
This is where I wish that we (in general) had better interfaces for
constructing and visualizing the 'base curve' tone mapping from RAW
input to rendered output. I'm half-imagining something like the zone
module because it does a pretty good job of visualizing what tones go
where. (On the other hand I'm only so-so at doing a good job with the
zone module, so who knows.)
- cks
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