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John Paines wrote:Michel Rabe wrote:jallen0 wrote:EL: “When you move out to extremities of the body, therefore, you can just make those two-stop values – minus four can represent two stops, and so on."
I don't quite understand, can someone please explain?
It sounds like he expects shooters to recalculate the value of the stops at the "extremities", for cameras which don't conform to the existing scale. So in his example, -4 isn't two stops away from crushed blacks, it's more like four. But since -6 and +6 are no longer absolute measures, there's no way to see, graphically, when the sensor is clipping, without some additional indicator on the screen. And recalculating the value of stops at the edges becomes more complicated as ISO values change the distribution of stops above and below middle grey.
Ah I see, thanks.