Digital BW, The Print

Could you elaborate a bit on "all the way to the right"? I'm close to 
following
you, but not quite there :-) Thanks!

Scott

John Vitollo wrote:

> This is my second attempt to post this...sorry if there is a double 
> post but 40 minutes have
> gone by and my post wasn't up.
>
> There is an interesting thread over at the Adobe Camera Raw forums 
> regarding how metering
> with digital is different than film. The gist of the info provided, by 
> Jeff Schewe and Bruce
> Fraser, is using a spot meter and exposure to the right is the way to 
> go since the last 1/5 of
> the histogram holds nearly half of all the recorded info. Basically 
> expose for the highlights all
> the way to the right. But most digital cameras histograms are not that 
> accurate...as it
> interprets a rendered jpeg file and leaves safe head room to hold 
> highlight detail...meaning
> purposely underexposing.
>
> It's a long thread and the metering discussion begins at post #20
>
> http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@...1heBscCKO.22@.
> 3bb6a869.3bbb1172/24
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