Digital camera sensors are very unforgiving of blown highlights, they are however most forgiving of underexposure. My suspicion after looking at the pictures is there was possibly more latitude available to you. It is amazing what shadow detail can be retrieved from what appears to be a blocked up shadow.
Ed. > Pity I didn't have a diffuser or some kind of shade handy as a little > spot of direct sunlight blew out the highlights of that flower in the > upper right-hand corner. Still, I think the overall latitude is slightly > greater than slide film. >>> Just uploaded 6 shots taken with the *ist-D this past weekend at >>> Grandfather Mountain. They're medium resolution JPEGs of moderate >>> physical size (horizontally-oriented shots are only 1000 pixels >>> wide)...
