> On Jan 26, 2017, at 11:52 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yup, theory and practice. In practice, Lightroom is only good for > compensating by a few stops. With the K100 and K20, when shooting in low > light I was ruled by the histogram, with the K-5,3,1 it guides me. I know > that I can give a lot more latitude when under exposing to preserve > highlights. When shooting static scenes, I'll bracket rather than carefully > chimp each histogram, although bracketing ISO is pretty much useless. I wish > the camera let me choose what to bracket independent of metering choice. > > A lot of theory and advice have been given in this thread. In theory, theory > in practice are a lot closer than they are in practice. The only way to learn > what works for you, and your camera, is to try it. It's best if you can try > it on some photos that it doesn't matter if you ruin.
Thanks, Larry. I get lots of good practical how-to-do-it/how-it-works theory here. But I don’t learn anything till I try it. WIAI, a question for you and Godfrey: What’s “chimping”? Taking a shot, checking the results, adjusting and taking it again? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" - Mary Oliver -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
