----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Re: Another Pentax Story
> Well, I can't shoot underexposed to get darker images and darker > shadows as > I've done in the past without incurring gobs of noise that ruin the > image. > I don't find that at all convenient, and it has changed to one degree > or > another how I shoot and what I shoot. There's a feeling that I'd like > to > capture in some of my pics that, for whatever reason, I can't. Maybe > I > have to learn more processing techniques, or better hone the skills I > have, > but for the moment a lot of my pics are unacceptable wrt noise in the > shadows. Exposing "to the right" makes some areas to light, fries > others, > and so forth. There's a whole aspect to digital, as I've experienced > it, > that is unsatisfactory and which doesn't allow me to fully express > myself. A couple of the people I hang with, one is a third generation portrait guy, have mentioned that digital seems to fall apart somewhere around Zone III. They note both excessive noise and a loss of shadow detail due to blocking up. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
