Ok, seems i may have been to quick's on the draw here. I usually open my files in Preview to quickly look at them and see what i have, which is what i did with my plowing match photos, and my Model A shots etc. In Preview everything looked way under expose. Having just loaded the file into LR ver 4.1 files look fine. Still a bit miffed on this.
Dave On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:21 PM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: >> >> Dave, >> >> What mode of metering were you using? >> (center) spot? matrix? center-weighted? > > I use centre weigh excusivly with all lenses > >> >> You probably know this, but just in case: >> If you are using a matrix or even center-weighted, and you have lots of >> bright sky in the frame, that can lead to underexposure. >> From your description of the scene, it sounds that there could be plenty of >> bright sky (or, perhaps, something else very bright, say, bright-yellow >> field of ripe grains [wheat, rye]). > > Shots into the sun yes, usually require +.7 or eve +1 but shots with > sun t my back never required more than +0.3 >> And, of course, having the sun in the frame produces the same effect, but >> even worse. > > >> >> The same can happen if you are using spot metering, and the spot (the center >> by default, unless you configured it to match the focus point, and that one >> is to a side) is not on the subject, - you can get the same effect. > > My main concern is that i used two lenses last week at the Model A > shoot, same light some shooting but +0.3 siufficed with the 55-300 +2 > looks like the norm > > Dave >> >> HTH, >> >> Igor >> >> >> >> On Jul 22, 2016, at 3:58 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> >>> >>> So i used the 55-300 at the plowing demo yesterday. Hot humid and >>> dusty day. The unit itself focused quite nicely, it fits well on the >>> K-5 and my hand zoom barrel stiff but thats fine. Barrel fully >>> extended makes for a bit of a shaky hand held. IQ and sharpness seem >>> decent enough. Only thing and i'm not sure its due to the lens or the >>> camera metering but when using the 17-70 or the 50-200 a +.3 EV >>> correction is needed. I used +0.7 and all of the DNG's are still way >>> under exposed. I would normally get a small amount of under exposure >>> shooting into the sun with my other lenses but every shot, into the >>> sun or with the sun, is quite a bit under exposed. I'll need to adjust >>> every one in LR. >>> >>> Any thoughts on this. >>> >>> Dave >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
