How to determine when the midtones are properly exposed using the exposure module?

[nodal (Philip Clarke)]

@paperdigits

You seem to be bringing in artistic judgments, which aren’t necessary.

I disagree, I’m very technical.

@paperdigits

If you dont have clipping, then you don’t need to assign the luminance value of “mid tone” to the sun-lit grass, you can decide this during post.

Not quite. If shooting in shadow but exposing for the highlights, in post one would be raising an image of person that would be blue and significantly more noisy than necessary. ETTR would give a poorer end result even though the RAW would have an even spread of tones across the histogram.