It depends on the scene The K-1 meter does fine on neutral or dark frames. With an abundance of white, such as white sky dominating the frame, I’ll dial in -1 to -1.5 stops of exposure comp. As you say, dynamic range is good enough that one doesn’t have to nail the exposure, and correcting it in RAW conversion yields the same result as correcting it in camera.
> On Mar 9, 2020, at 11:39 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > I’m curious how people go about setting and checking exposure. My early > pentax DSLRs were really bad at metering, so I just got in the habit of > always checking the histogram. Blownout highlights really annoy me. I also > ran into an interesting metering issue with flowers and other saturated > colors, in that the metering isn’t color sensitive so that I’d blow out one > or two of the channels (usually red) while everything else had plenty of > lattitude. > > I have gotten to the point that if I’m not shooting action and running up > against the K-1s miserable buffering, I’ll just bracket nominal and under by > a couple of stops for safety, and not having to worry about it. Most of the > time the dynamic range on the later sensors is so good, that running a bit > under on the raw images is no problem at all. > > How do other people deal with this? > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
