gadolf
(Gustavo Adolfo)
February 16, 2020, 6:41pm
7
Godnatt, Claes.
For the same motivation that drove the first “uniwb developers” to devise it, as stated by one of the first users here .
EDIT: Also, a recommended reading:
The myth of digital reds and the concept of highlight headroom
I’ve seen repeated many times on the internet that “reds are difficult to capture on digital” and I’d like to dispel that notion.
http://photonstophotos.net/GeneralTopics/Exposure/Study_in_Red_-_Part_2.htm
On this old page, Bill Claff, a generally trustworthy source of objective data nowadays, notes that with this extremely intense red, he needed to underexpose (read: use -2 stops of exposure compensation) this image of a flower b…