How to determine the best exposure for raw files

well what do you know "hi light inspection" shows the EXACT fine line blown highlights as my in camera zebras.
and look at the ovexp values .018 😄not accurate 😉

It does help and, given that I'm an advocate for the use of simplified language, I'm not going to get too nit-picky over an article that is geared toward the intermediate level photographer.

Please do, with full access to the raw files rather than the stupid game you trying and keep doing

0.018+0.007+0.009%.
Try techsupport. As of now, all you are demonstrating is that zebras are not telling you that only a few pixels are clipped.

You didn't, unless you mean the pigeons sort of a bomb :)

That's because most of the time (if not all the time) the in-camera histogram is more conservative so to say and shows highlight clipping where there's no clipping (or less clipping) in raw.

Bigger zebras or bigger spikes in the histogram doesn't mean there's 'more information'. It's actually less information than in raw histogram.

This is just another fantasy tangent you go on when you have been shown to be wrong.

I'm being both courteous and accurate.

I wasn't the one who earlier questioned if he is a troll or moron or the one who referred to his 'bomb' as pigeon droppings.

Go and preach to those members as well if you need to be taken seriously.

maybe on your camera but not my a74

That is at best just your opinion and not an established fact.

you own a sony a74 ?

i would suggest you learn how to set your camera up correctly. but then again you might be shooting an old camera and not have the functions i have on my a74.

You're running away again after suggesting you have proof to backup your claims and then challenged to post it.

Not to railroad your thread Jim. but there is no way in gods earth you could get the accuracy shooting raw with any method that would match my a74 using the zebras even if you had a computer plugged into your camera. shame i havent my field monitor. i can move the camera spot metering millimetres from left to right and fine tune exposure to infinite of a stop not just 1/3rd. . in fact the movement of the camera as i press the shutter button can change it 😀 the deleted members camera set up from the other thread is bang on. what im posting is not new, sony uses have been setting there cameras up for a while with his numbers.

Without any proof to backup your opinion it is totally reasonable to believe it is total nonsense.

There are a few ways to make Sony zebras more accurate, within 96 to 98 % of saturation for regular scenes, one is to set the camera to HLG with zebras set to 100+, the other is to use highlight metering with zebras set to 108+ or 109+. It's widely known among Sony shooters.

ROTFLMAO