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Re: Good exposure

  • From: P3D Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Good exposure
  • Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 09:56:08 -0500

There may be no such thing as "perfect" exposure, but it may be
possible to define a "best" exposure for a given scene.  Both
underexposed and overexposed shots lose information, because detail is
lost either in the shadow areas or in the light areas.  Therefore, it
might make sense to say the best exposure is the one which preserves
the most information.  By analogy with audio recording, once this
"master" has been recorded, it could be mixed and adjusted, optically
or digitally, for particular effects.

-pd
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                               Peter Davis
                       http://www.ziplink.net/~pfd

             "Standardization is the opposite of innovation."


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