Excessive use of recovery slider causes banding.

Has anyone else noticed this, the situation is subject back lit (form window with white blinds) with fill flash. Using the exposure slider to increase exposure and the recovery slider near maximum to take back down the blinds causes blocks of solid white to appear in parts of the translucent blind in images exported. This occurs in Tiff both 16 & 8 bit as well as Jpgs. It's also a problem on 2 systems PPC G5 and MBP. It does not show on the viewer or full screen mode when editing but appears in the output files.
Reducing the Recovery to 3/4 seems to make it disappear. It caused me some problems yesterday when outputting some tiffs and required some rework to get things right. JFYI

Top 1/3rd in portrait or last 1/3 L to R in landscape produces a band of more solid white. Obviously a problem and now I'm more cautious seeing as you have the same problem. Granted by judicious amounts of slider applied it causes no problem but there is no indication of where or when this will appear, on screen gives no indication, it only seems to appear in printing or output.

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