How to determine the best exposure for raw files

You didn't, unless you mean the pigeons sort of a bomb :)

That's because most of the time (if not all the time) the in-camera histogram is more conservative so to say and shows highlight clipping where there's no clipping (or less clipping) in raw.

Bigger zebras or bigger spikes in the histogram doesn't mean there's 'more information'. It's actually less information than in raw histogram.

This is just another fantasy tangent you go on when you have been shown to be wrong.

Here we go again!

Please keep the discourse courteous.

David

I'm being both courteous and accurate.

I wasn't the one who earlier questioned if he is a troll or moron or the one who referred to his 'bomb' as pigeon droppings.

Go and preach to those members as well if you need to be taken seriously.

maybe on your camera but not my a74

That is at best just your opinion and not an established fact.

you own a sony a74 ?

i would suggest you learn how to set your camera up correctly. but then again you might be shooting an old camera and not have the functions i have on my a74.

You're running away again after suggesting you have proof to backup your claims and then challenged to post it.

Not to railroad your thread Jim. but there is no way in gods earth you could get the accuracy shooting raw with any method that would match my a74 using the zebras even if you had a computer plugged into your camera. shame i havent my field monitor. i can move the camera spot metering millimetres from left to right and fine tune exposure to infinite of a stop not just 1/3rd. . in fact the movement of the camera as i press the shutter button can change it 😀 the deleted members camera set up from the other thread is bang on. what im posting is not new, sony uses have been setting there cameras up for a while with his numbers.

Without any proof to backup your opinion it is totally reasonable to believe it is total nonsense.

There are a few ways to make Sony zebras more accurate, within 96 to 98 % of saturation for regular scenes, one is to set the camera to HLG with zebras set to 100+, the other is to use highlight metering with zebras set to 108+ or 109+. It's widely known among Sony shooters.

ROTFLMAO

are you saying cameras can stream live raw ?

using the second method.

Which jpeg picture style are people using to shoot their raw files with? This makes a very big difference to the histogram & blinkies/zebras when adjusting settings when shooting raw.

Yes.