

the histogram and picker tool, no deep dives with software like Rawdigger. there's no point to doing that (ISO is not light/exposure/data). Now, looking at the same image in Capture One at defaults the clouds seem to. But you have to experiment with your camera to know how far you can push it. Many who shoot ETTR record raw files push the in-camera histogram to where it is just showing clipping (slightly climbing right side at least touching), and rely on the ~1stop of recovery capability. all you really need is to develop a good idea of the difference between what your camera typically shows vs the same raw/jpeg file opened with defaults (and it's highlight recoverability). There are other differences, but the above are probably the biggest. And lastly, there is a huge cost difference FastRawViewer is about 10x cheaper at the moment.
#RAWDIGGER AND LIGHTROOM HISTORGRAM SAME PRO#
You can also go down the path of using uni-wb in camera for totally useless jpegs, a lot of hassle, and a bit better histogram match.īut none of that is absolutely necessary. Similar to ACDSee Pro and Lightroom, RAW support from Photo Mechanic can take a little longer to become available, while FastRawViewer is almost immediate. I use the "neutral" camera profile with reduced contrast (minimum) and brightness (-1) settings so the image review is closer to a raw image in LR with the same "neutral" profile applied. You can do some things so that the camera histogram(s) and image review more closely matches the raw file histogram(s) at the expense of less usable jpegs SOOC. The histogram doesn't show any luminance clipping (short of right edge), and if I hold alt while selecting the exposure slider it shows me that the small clipping warnings are for the blue channel only.Īnd the raw file histogram looks somewhat different as well (as expected). This is the same jpeg w/o any edits in LR.

It shows all three channels and the combined luminance as touching the right side (clipping) and the highlight warning shows a large area on the upper chest as clipped for all four (R/G/B/L). Here is a D850 jpeg image review on the camera. The histogram in LR is almost certainly more accurate than the one in your camera.Īnd interestingly, LR's histogram may not match the camera's histogram for a jpeg image either (reasons 1-3 above). The camera's histogram is based on the camera processed jpeg and is highly unlikely to match the raw file data (if recording/editing raw).Some camera's histograms just lie pretty badly (my D800 did).Many cameras will show a color channel as clipped at a level of around 245-250 (i.e.Many cameras will show luminance histogram clipping if any one of the color channels is clipped.There are many reasons why they may be different.
