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Meaning, only the best possible exposure is the "proper exposure"? If so, I'm not subscribing to it.
May 31, 2023
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The systematic way to approach these question is to define first and categorise second.
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For many (most?) amateurs and customers "The proper exposure" means just "normally expected" lightness, DOF, motion artifacts, in the final photo/print.
They rarely care about intermediate data (like raw files).Nerds often use differing meanings.
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I don't know who are nerds, but pros often use a differing meaning.
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For a start, I would be glad to have any constructive and practical explanation from the author.
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I suppose the other approach is to weed out unnecessary adjectives. In common use we have 'correct', 'proper', 'optimum', 'best', 'good', 'maximum'. If they're all synonyms that looks like at least five too many.
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I'm off to see a Bourne movie ;-)
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Also, the term "latitude" is very common among photographers.
I have a few shutters that don't have very fine speed gradations, and even combined with the aperture control (to the point of relaxing DoF requirements slightly) I'm 1/4 EV down from the hottest possible exposure. This isn't a proper exposure? -
You should know from 1950's and 60's films that 'hot' and 'proper' don't go together.
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nerd
/nəːd/
noun
a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest.
"the executive is an unabashed film nerd" -
A proper exposure is whatever Chuck Norris says it is ... 😃
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"scene replication"
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No Its Ken Rockwell, and he is a good photographer,
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Why does this thread exist?
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Good question.
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Thread "why don't cameras have raw histograms" got too long. I stopped reading it.
I would like to see evidence that an in-camera Raw histogram would help. Can I install RawDigger or FastRawViewer to get an idea? I can't really imagine the situations where I'd want to use a Raw histogram.
ETTR is no good for me because it makes JPEG too dark. With modern denoise algorithms, noise in underexposed areas is no longer a problem. Or if it is, shadows can be darkened. That is the problem ETTR used to solve. It seems to me that almost any reasonable exposure can be made to work with a good Raw processor such as DxO PhotoLab.
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Its free for a month. i bought Fast raw viewer, you can then compare and enter these debates have ing the industry standard program.
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Depends. It can make OOC JPEGs too bright too.
