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Originally Posted by Julian Thompson
Just one thing - surely we are not saying the histogram is useless in RAW? Although there is more latitude/safety margin surely the M8 histogram will be pretty close to that which I later see in Aperture?
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I personally think the histo is next to useless in 90% of cases anyway, but in RAW it certainly doesn't represent anything like the headroom or shadow room you really have in a good raw converter (again, except at the very highest ISOs, where you need a better metering technique than "checking the histo" anyway
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So put in your terms: at very high ISOs you may need to shoot for "data"... but in 90% of cases yes, you are shooting for "mood" since that's part of proper exposure. (Finishing the mood, or emphasizing it in post, is another question entirely for me).