Thanks. That's with the E-1. I hardly use the E-500. -- Bob
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: 17 June 2007 21:13 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Histograms > > Nice shot! > > Is that with the E1 or the E500? > > Normally, I find that the Pentax displays are 'optimistic' (the on- > camera histogram indicates saturation a little early) and the L1 too. > > Godfrey > > On Jun 17, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Bob W wrote: > > > A Royal Navy carrier (Ark Royal, according to the sailors' > hats) is in > > Greenwich today, so I decided to take a picture of it. It's a rather > > uninteresting picture, but given the very grey tonality I > thought I'd > > play around with exposing to the right to see what > difference it made > > in Lightroom when I applied a tone curve. I first made an > exposure on > > auto with no compensation, and looked at the histogram. I > then dialled > > in various amounts of over-exposure to move it to the right > until the > > histogram fell off the edge. > > > > To my surprise, when I look at the pictures in Lightroom > the histogram > > is significantly further to the right than it is on the camera's > > display. So the exposure that was right up against the edge in the > > camera, has fallen over it in Lightroom. Is this normal? Have other > > people seen the same thing with their cameras? > > > > Here is a photo that was over to the right, but not quite at the far > > end. About +1.5 stops, I think. > > http://www.web-options.com/Carrier/content/_6175495_large.html > > > > Architectural note: you can see the dome of St. Paul's towards the > > bottom right - it's about 5 miles away. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
