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Subject: Re: [OM] Dragger Fleet dragging ass
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:20:07 -0500
Thanks.  I assumed you'd done at least something in post but the major 
thing is that the meter's reading doesn't blow a channel in the 
highlights or totally bury the shadows or, if it does bury shadows, that 
that represents reality as well as the camera can muster.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/22/2013 10:41 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I called it matrix, but the exif calls it multi-segment. At any rate,
> this is straight metering, No compensation at all. Not to say I
> haven't done some post in Lightroom, but it's essentially as metered
> by the camera. I read somewhere that some wag thought Nikon had
> really screwed up with the D800 matrix, but that hasn't been my
> experience. I'm awed by what it seems capable of. There are other
> shots with wide Dynamic Range that the meter doesn't seem to breath
> hard while handling. Again, post is necessary for tweaking, but the
> essential exposure is there. I think I recall reading in Thom Hogan's
> review of the D800 that it's capable of a little more than 11 stops
> of dynamic range at base ISO of 100.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> At this scale one has to look carefully to find the boats.  But it
>> must look glorious in a large print.  Does your comment about the
>> meter mean that this shot is nothing more/less than what the meter
>> recommended?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 2/22/2013 7:56 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>> Leaving New Harbor, Feb. 20.
>>>
>>> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2758
>
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