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Old 04-11-2008, 09:59 PM
Jim Ford Jim Ford is offline
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Re: New Camera

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Originally Posted by eeyore View Post
be aware tho that shooting to the right is only a good idea for those shooting raw - in jpeg its awfully easy to blow the highlights and lost highlight detail is gone for good - whereas dark images can be lightened up in photoshop.
With this caveat that I quoted earlier in the thread:

"If you fall prey to the temptation to underexpose images to avoid blowing highlights, you'll waste a lot of the bits the camera can capture, and you'll run a significant risk of introducing noise in the midtones and shadows."

Jim
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