Rob Studdert pondered: > That's all you can do but shooting RAW helps a little however I don't know what > the histogram is actually reporting when shooting RAW. I don't know if it takes > into account the in camera contrast setting or if it shows the full histogram > of the RAW capture? I guess I'll have to do a little experiment next time I > have my camera out.
I'll bet that it's showing the histogram based on the (low-quality) JPEG embedded in the RAW image (which I also believe to be used when viewing zoomed-in portions of a RAW image on the camera review screen or in Pentax Photo Browser; non-zoomed views will use the thumbnail JPEG).

