Histogram

[Clot on the Landscape]

Hello all, hopefully Im posting this in the right place.
I have a basic understanding of my histogram and use it all the time to check my exposure reasonably successfully. I have sometimes had a histogram where the graph peaks of the screen to the top end, all cool left to right but actually peaking of the top ofthe screen. Can somebody tell me what this is telling me...is it a bad thing?
Cheers in advance
Alan

 

[st599]

There are more pixels at that code value than the software developer allowed for when writing the histogram software.

It's not a problem.

 

[Clot on the Landscape]

Thanks mate, I was worried I was losing data

 

[Photodiva]

Your histogram is a bar chart of individual tones from 0 to 255 in your image. You do not want it 'falling off' at either the shadow end or the highlight end. Blinkies on your LCD are a good indication that your histogram is overexposed. Don't be too concerned with histograms.

 

[Clot on the Landscape]

Thanks, iv got my head around that part of things, it was just the peaks going off screen upwardly that concerned me. I use my histogram all the time