Raw Histogram??

You've seen that Adobe are adding 0.35 EV lightness to raw files from your camera to compensate. You've seen that if a scene contains a significant patch of saturated colour (red, for example) the histogram shows clipping where there is none.

That you can do, see those screens and raw histograms. Actually, you did, but you are not paying attention.

ok, thank you 🙂 I didn't realise there was such a large range in the calibration of camera meters.

At this stage I think I'll go with:

"....contemporary camera meters are calibrated to output a firmware set image lightness...."

Would you be comfortable with that if you saw it in my posts?

1/15 f/3.2 vs. 1/15 f/3.2+1. What's that +1?

1/20 on FastRawViewer screenshot, 1/25 on the LCD. Interesting.

I think the notion that the calibration of the meters is guided by what the manufacturer wants it to be (and depends on what results in what they think is acceptable image quality) can be made more clear. Same camera may have different calibration for different ISO settings. It's all about what the manufacturer thinks is good enough output.

good catch. have no idea will have to look into that.

will check it out.
checked it out thats just the over exposure amount form the cameras normal exposure, its not a correction.

Ok. Now what Jim said about evaluative/matrix metering makes sense to me now.

So, I'll simplify my proposed comment even more by going with something like:

"....contemporary camera meters are calibrated to output their manufacturers' set image lightness...."

which should cover all bases, hopefully 🙂

Would you and Jim be comfortable with that if you saw it in my posts?

Another set
had to klean up my desktop theres that many images .

preview histogram

Live histogram

this is showing clipping

@DonaldB

On a side note:

BBcode, like HTML tags, have no forward slash "/" in the opening tags. The closing tags have a forward slash.

Also, opening/closing tag pairs need to match otherwise you end up with "ugly" looking posts with messed up code being displayed.

In your above post, all you need to do is delete the forward slash in the opening quote tag.

awesome thanks for that, i hope i can remember for the next time.

No problem.

Why? "What are you on now?", please?

Jim is shooting MF Hasselblad.

I'm not sure which tolerance you are referring to.

I was referring to the 18% grey I originally mentioned and Jim's ~12.5% and Iliah's 7%.

some go to 22%