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What's happening when I shoot Luminance 64-1023 vs 0-1023?

Started Dec 23, 2021 | Questions thread
Entropy512 Veteran Member • Posts: 6,016
Re: What's happening when I shoot Luminance 64-1023 vs 0-1023?

mttttttttttttttt wrote:

Here's a screenshot comparing the two wave forms in post
https://ibb.co/yqx3t8B
If I want more info out of my blacks and mids without much concern for blowouts in my highlights, should I shoot this? Is everything just being raised? Is it stretched more throughout the mid?
Is this exactly replicable in post or is there bound to be differences between applying in body vs post?

You're not going to get "more info" out of your blacks without washing out/desaturating everything.

64-1023 is an odd/nontypical luma range, but in general legal range luma done to prevent compression artifacts from clipping, giving more flexibility in post. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV - search for "Gibbs phenomenon"

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