Hi Steve ... Essentially, set the exposure comp to 1/3 to 2/3 stop ~over~ exposure. You'll see fried highlights on the LCD screen, but that's just from the low quality JPEG. When looking at the files in the RAW converter, little, and most often nothing, is burnt out (I've not yet come across any frame that had fried highlights). The raw files have a lot more latitude than the viewed JPEGs. I'd say - perhaps somewhat exaggerated - working with RAW and JPEG is like using color neg vs slide film. Anyway, the idea is to get more detail and information in the darker parts of the image and deal with the highlights in the post processing.
Since trying this technique (and admittedly there has only been a days worth of shooting to work with) my exposures have improved quite a bit. Can't say if this technique will work on the istD, or other digital cameras, as they may be set up differently. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Steve Jolly > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > G gave me some exposure advice which ran counter to what > > I'd been doing with the camera, and the results were great - much better > > than expected. > > Care to share? Compensatory coffee available in London upon > application... ;-)
