Originally posted by nunzio I work mostly in raw, but I verified this thing also working in jpeg.
With the setting in M, photographing a landscape, for example, the sky always appears very bright, over-exposed and difficult to fix in PP, while the rest of the image is perfect.
Also in the picture, areas of the face illuminated by the sun appear almost burned, and you can not distinguish the traits.
Obviously I take care of the exposure in shooting over most of the image, including the sky or parts of the face most illuminated.
Ciao Nunzio,
I have never heard a consistent complaint about Pentax overexposing highlights. It seems they do EVERYTHING to avoid extremes in their jpgs. So much so that "flat" "washed out" and "dull" are the adjectives I associate with them.
Personally, I shoot my jpgs with reverse film simulation on to punch 'em up. Then I can email them to my hearts content.
But for any prints (ANY prints) it's RAW exclusively.
(rant follows. Please stop reading if this is off topic.)
For the life of me, i can't imagine spending money on a tool and expecting it to read both my mind and the scene before it and come out with a "perfect" result.
Don't tell me "I used to shoot 25 speed Kodachrome and got perfect exposures every time." I don't want to hear about Portra or Tri-X or any of 'em.
No photos exist in RAW or jpg or tiff or DNG or any of them. The result is entirely dependent on the viewing condition whether the viewing is a RAW interpreter, a video card or a printer. Mastery of each of the succeeding steps in photography is necessary. A "perfectly exposed" slide viewed against a candle is going to look somewhat different from the same slide viewed against the sun.
My conclusion is to work to get the best RAW file for my intent, then PP it with my viewing circumstance in mind. In all my dozen or so digital cameras, I have not yet had one that gave me universally satisfying jpgs. OK jpgs, Not Bad jpgs. even Pretty good! jpgs. But for my photographs RAW gives me the best chance to capture (or stretch) the range to my taste.
Good luck getting 15 EV steps from your jpgs.
And thanks for your patience.