A question about chimping

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:50 AM, David Savage wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2007 6:20 PM, Boris Liberman <boris71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks. But then again what are these settings of sharpening and
>> contrast that you set so that histogram is as close as possible to  
>> the
>> RAW data?
>>
>
> The in camera contrast, saturation & sharpening settings?
>
> Press Menu, and they're some of the settings on the first screen
>
> Set them as low as possible, unless your shooting .jpg.

I set the camera to natural color, minimize contrast and sharpening,  
leave saturation alone, set the JPEG size to minimum and compression  
to maximum. That returns histograms which reflect something similar  
to what I see in Lightroom's histogram display.

Godfrey