Re: Survey: How do you use the Histogram/Blinkies?

[Bob Shell]

On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
It's a guide for RAW users, it's only accurate if shooting finished  
files in
camera. We are talking about the Pentax DSLRs of course, I have no  
idea how the
histogram is derived in other brands of cameras.



So far as I know they all use data from the preview JPEG, the same  
JPEG that's viewed on the in-camera monitor.  So you are not only not  
seeing an accurate histogram from the RAW image, you aren't seeing  
the RAW image on the monitor, either.

Bob