I know that if I enable the DRO setting on my camera. Auto exposure suposedly prevents clipping of the highlights (dpreview people again). I'd expect setting my camera to RAW, RAW+JPG or pure JPG would also change the auto-exposure settings.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Gert van der Plas - Schrama <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that if I enable the DRO setting on my camera. Auto exposure > suposedly prevents clipping of the highlights (dpreview people again). > I'd expect setting my camera to RAW, RAW+JPG or pure JPG would also > change the auto-exposure settings. > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013, Chris Siebenmann wrote: >>> >>> There are some ferociously technical people who hang around >>> dpreview.com's forums (they get into very low-level analysis of sensor >>> performance, including for astrophotography). I've never seen them >>> discuss any evidence that camera ADCs are at all non-linear in general >>> at either end of the dynamic range. >> >> Finally got around to doing more research, helped by discovering "ETTR" >> as a search term. You're right, most of the "non-linearity" stuff >> predates 2008 and almost all predates 2010. I did find a couple of >> interesting and recent posts that might explain why there's so little >> recent: >> >> http://www.johnshawphoto.com/ettr-to-the-far-right/ >> http://forums.popphoto.com/showthread.php?626490-Tips&s=3ae79e117c07f306f5e72899eb4a9ce0&p=726079&viewfull=1#post726079 >> >> Basically, it appears that most cameras these days are conservative in >> displaying histograms, so if you avoid clipping there you're probably >> staying in the linear zone. >> -- >> Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ >> <*> <*> <*> >> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics >> Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics >> Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. >> Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Darktable-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > > > > -- > Panta Rhei -- Life is a dance -- Panta Rhei -- Life is a dance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
