0 Replies Latest reply: Jan 31, 2012 4:36 PM by jrsforums RSS

    PV2012 highlight warnings "real"

    jrsforums Community Member

      I only noticed this recently and think it is a wonderful feature of PV2012.

       

      At default settings, PV2012 only shows highlight warnings where the highlights are blown and unrecoverable.  Manipulating sliders will allow you to, in most cases, to lower the highlights to reduce the warnings, but those areas that were blown will never properly recover their detail or color.  If all channels were blown, the best you will get is silver/grey coloration.

       

      With PV2010, the highlight warnings might show, but areas might still be recoverable....i.e. they were not actually blown in the raw, but were the result high exposure, brightness, and/or contrast settings.

       

      In discussion with Eric Chan, he said, "Highlight recovery is always enabled in PV 2012.  Combined with the highlight shoulder in PV 2012, this means that areas that would've shown as blown in 2010 may actually show as not clipped in 2012.  (Also, 2012's HL recovery is improved over 2010, for better detail extraction.)  This is the reason for the HL clip warning differences between 2010 and 2012."

       

      I think this is a great asset of PV2012.  I doi a lot of bracketed exposures with EC adjusted to get the optimal raw exposure (highest EV without blowing highlights).  This means I need to review at least 3 shots be image to select the ones I want to work.  Being able to quickly spot those which have blown highlights quickens this effort.

       

      I would be interested if others have noticed this and agree.

       

      John