Originally posted by panicAttack I know none is wrong, but it is hard when you see few of your images looks slightly overexposed on your camera (clipping highlights), turn down exposure for stop or two, then shot hundreds more and when you transfer your files to computer then realise that only those frist overexposed images were right exposed and all others are completely underexposed.
That's huge problem, but i will get used to that.
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it was. i wrote that on the first comment
I deleted my last comment, because I saw it afterwards - sorry.
I think there's no way to get a precise histogram in camera for all situations that may occur. But you could try to find out the headroom that's availlabe. Just an idea. Never did it by myself.
Do an ETTR (expose to the right) capture of a scene with constant (contolled) light (best done with camera on tripod). Then do some more captures of the same scene. With every capture increase the exposure time by 1/3 ev. Load all the images into ACR. One of the last images should show blown out highlights.
How many 1/3 ev steps did you measure before you got blown highlights? That should be the "headroom" of your specific camera. You can use this for controlled overexposure - if you like and if you want to take the risk.