A question about chimping

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

Just FYI:

The reason for this is that the histogram and saturation blinkies are  
calculated from the preview JPEG embedded in the RAW file.

Godfrey

On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:40 AM, pnstenquist at comcast.net wrote:

> Thanks for this. Good info. I hadn't realized that the jpeg  
> settings affected the histogram.
> Paul
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren at mac.com>
>>
>> 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.