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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gustafson" data-source="post: 503649" data-attributes="member: 40735">Thanks for the insights, very helpful. A couple of follow up questions: Is Active D-Lighting relevant to this discussion? I have mine turned off, but wondering if it's an effective and idiot-proof option for high contrast situations. Second, can you point me to a primer on interpreting and leveraging the in-camera histogram to optimize exposure? Or provide a quick-and-dirty guide on how to do it?My understanding of the histogram is rather poor. All I know is you want to avoid having the bell curves way over to the right (underexposed?) or left (overexposed?) or clipped (blown highlights?). However, in practice, I find acceptable images that break these rules. Case in point: I took some moon shots the other day, and noticed that the curves were all smushed to the left on the histogram, and clipped. When I tweaked exposure to get what I thought were acceptable shots, I saw that the histograms hadn't changed very much at all.To your other point about avoiding blown pixels, I've seen whenever I have a light source or a strong reflection thereof in the image, I get the blinking indicator in the "Highlights" screen in playback mode. I'd imagine if I dialed down exposure to avoid blown pixels, then the rest of the image would underexposed. Is that correct or am I missing something?Thanks in advance!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</blockquote>