[filmscanners] Re: Filmscanners - is this about as good asitgets?

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

The beauty of digital, in my opinion is how much you can move the curves
and still find info in the shadows.  Also, they seem to really do a
great job with night scenes, so you may be right as to how the metering
is accomplished.

Art

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

>>From: Mats Petersson
>>
>>This is to do with the "automatic exposure" or "exposure metering". If you
>>look at an AVERAGE picture, the overall image would be about 18%
>>gray if it
>>was a B&W image (at least, that's the theory). With modern cameras, there
>>is multiple sensors that sense different areas, and try to figure out
>>"what's going on", so that for instance if you're taking a picture of a
>>snowy landscape, it compensates somewhat for the fact that the whole thing
>>is very bright. It will not do this perfectly, but it will help a little
>>bit to get a "better" exposure.
>>
>
> I would think the people who write firmware for digicams would be smart
> enough to make it expose for the highlights, not the midtones, since
> digicams clip hard. I'd rather have an image come out dark, if that's what
> it takes to preserve the detail in certain hightlights. You can always bend
> the curves in Photoshop to bring back the midtones. Indeed, clever firmware
> could do that in the camera. The results wouldn't be technically accurate,
> but then neither is film at the extremes.
>
> --
>
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
>


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