Being an old curmudgeon, if I want the most accuracy with the fewest
frames shot, and if light and action are not rapidly changing, I fall
back to manual exposure and an incident light meter. That pretty much
overcomes the problem with blown highlights and/or over saturated color
channels.
-p
On 3/9/2020 10:39 AM, Larry Colen 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?
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