How to determine the best exposure for raw files

ROTFLMAO

are you saying cameras can stream live raw ?

using the second method.

Which jpeg picture style are people using to shoot their raw files with? This makes a very big difference to the histogram & blinkies/zebras when adjusting settings when shooting raw.

Yes.

Doesn't really help with placing skintones.

thats interesting. i havent streamed 4k from my a74 in my studio yet as only have 1 4k 10bit monitor for my editing. but i might have to plug the 4k into the camera to see if there is really much of a difference, im viewing my studio monitors from 2 meters away.

i have a weird setup for my skin tones and never shoot at base. i like to keep minimal light on my portrait subjects. enough for effect only. i also shoot a lot of fluro translucent coloured costumes to much light changes the already difficult to shoot colours.

Try shooting tethered, like www.captureone.com/en/explore-features/tethering or www.captureone.com/en/explore-features/tethering/wireless-tethering-sony - and there are much cheaper ways to achieve the same.

will have to look into it. but i tether now to twin 24 inch monitors and can pivot my monitors from portrait to landscape on there stands and the camera automatically switches views to match, i get full 24inch high portrait view. i will have to see how fast the wireless tethering is as i need instant as i dont shot with the camera evf at all. i only use the monitors.

The speed of WiFi data transfer depends a lot on your WiFi setup. USB tethering also works well.

im only using standard, but i do have lv1 switched on .

Yeah, standard or natural for me. I set the zebras to 105%, and even then you still seem to have about 1/3 of a stop headroom once they start to blink. Well, technically 1 channel will be blown out, but if it's a solid colour like blue sky, you don't really see it anyway.

i have mine set to 109 there's no headroom its bang on

105% is the max on my Panasonics, so that has to do :) Once you understand your camera (due to spending time and shooting tonnes of shots with it) you figure out the little idiosyncrasies and how to get around/work with them. I think that's one of the best things you can do -experiment and shoot heaps.

Hmm what exactly is different on your a74, out of what I said above?

as ive said before the incamera histogram it just doesnt show fine readings. heres a test i just did. put a zoom a constant aperture on your camera, now on wide angle expose on a light . me an oval caravan outside light. and stop down so your zebras are just flickering on the light. now look at your histogram its miles from clipping right ? now zoom in while looking at the histogram, as you zoom look at the histogram and the light will appear and clipped

there is a difference between "invariant" and "invariant starting somewhere" ? if it "starting somewhere" then it is not invariant but only partially invariant ... that is it...