

If even more light falls onto the sensor it does not lead to any higher reading, the clipping value is the maximum. They can do so up to a certain sensor specific level – called the clipping value. The sensor cells of a digital camera translate the amount of light that falls onto them into a digital reading. Why overexposed highlights are a problem? I’ll cover modules which have been part of darktable for a long time but also touch the brand new module “color reconstruction”. In this blog article I’d like to summarize how darktable can help you to repair overexposed images as much as possible. However, what to do when the “bad thing” happened and you got this one non-repeatable shot, which is so absolutely brilliant, but unfortunately has some ugly signs of overexposure?


So you better pay close attention to your camera’s metering while shooting. That’s what most photography related textbooks tell you – and it’s true. If you overexpose a photo with your digital camera you are in trouble.
