frank678 said:

thanks that makes perfect sense - i can see it is best to capture the best range of whats there overall and not whats not there at any given point.

as you were retweaking saturation just wanted to make sure i asked my question at this stage

No problem, I understand your concern. And I actually don't think you clipped any levels on your example, it looks more accurate, but if I went with a setting similar to yours I would blow out details in some other parts later in the transfer, you could of course go shot by shot to get the best results but I will not do that, maybe reel by reel is an good idea, I'll see what I can do.

EDIT: I guess I checked the wrong pic, you indeed clipped the whites on your example.