11-03-2011, 12:47 PM
I mostly agree with BC... I think the ETTR can be surely applied depending on the particular cases. During "zone"ing or exposing on midtones of the scene for instance, it is sometimes good to know that we have more headroom for the highlights and select the exposure point in the scene accordingly (without clipping). Experimenting the SNR performance with ETTR is fun, but does not sound practical in terms of field usage. Actually, if the scene allows, I would rather change shutter speed instead of playing with the ISO setting...
What you say Bryan about shifting the midtones to the right sounds reasonable at first sight (more headroom for highlights in raw data). But as stated in the ChromaSoft article, I also find it quite important when it comes to the impact of the tone curve applied by the raw converter... BC, any experience with different raw converters? Is it possible to avoid the interference of the applied tone curve during PP to some extent?
Serkan
What you say Bryan about shifting the midtones to the right sounds reasonable at first sight (more headroom for highlights in raw data). But as stated in the ChromaSoft article, I also find it quite important when it comes to the impact of the tone curve applied by the raw converter... BC, any experience with different raw converters? Is it possible to avoid the interference of the applied tone curve during PP to some extent?
Serkan