For Sony shooters you can adjust Zebra thresholds. The rule of thumb is a setting of 70 for videographers, 100 for jpeg stills and, crucially, 109+ for raw stills.
That latter setting is basically telling the camera, hey I’m shooting raw so I’ve got a higher clipping threshold.
In other words it’s more useful than a jpeg histogram. I’ve come to really appreciate this feature!
This video from Mark Galer does a brilliant job of explaining it:
If I'm not missing something, he doesn't show raw histograms. As Donald discovered, zebras with this 109+ setting resulted in more than 1/3 EV down from ETTR, and that's for a regular daylight scene, nothing fancy like a red or a blue flower.
Yep, I didn’t say it was perfect, but it’s the best implementation I’ve seen in a brand so far. It’s still not a raw histogram, but I find it more useful than the usual jpeg histogram in the EVF or on the rear screen in real time during dynamic fast paced shooting situations.
So fully Manual then?
Odd that your earlier posted example raw shot was done in Aperture Priority ...
... in which case, how about:
Set your ISO to base ISO.
Set your f-stop to the stop you need to get the depth of field you want.
See if the automatically-set shutter speed gave as much or as little blur as you want. If not, play with EC and to hell with the correct exposure. 😉
I'm addressing the presentation, which skips important factual data and thus may mislead.
For some reason the followers of 109+ idea consider it very reliable and also don't do proper testing.
Give me the words that confuse you and I'll add them to the glossary.
Precision is confusing? I would have thought the opposite.
You missed the images in the Lensrentals post? You must have been skimming...
Shooting the messenger.
The color cast of the lens is included in the raw data.
You increasingly sound like the protagonist in the wrong-way driver joke.
Did you miss the comparisons in the Lensrentals post?
This is an unattributed quote from the LensRentals article that I wrote. For shame.
otoh my g1 by default adds lens correction to the output jpgs but not to raw
There's always P mode...
I do and many people do - exactly in the field when doing landscape photography (and not only)
I quite like zebras, but they, too, are based on the preview image.
Indeed, I actually though he wrote it - hence my earlier prissy post about Aperture Priority ...
.. on my camera, to complete the first three steps, I must be in full Manual though.
This may help you understand what white balance is:
www.fastrawviewer.com/white-balance-as-per-channel-exposure-correction
