Don Sanderson wrote: >1.) With film you "expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights". >2.) With digital you "expose for the highlights and develop for the >shadows". > >(Please note that the word "important" should always appear before the >words "shadows" and "highlights".) > >Number 1 is a basic rule of the "Zone System" _for film_. >Number 2 is a basic rule for digital _jpegs_, but is rather misleading. > >Digital _RAW_ falls in between the two, but is more like number 1.
With both JPEG *and* RAW you want to expose for the highlights. It's just that with RAW you can get away with pushing things further :) (That is, edging toward overexposure.) -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
