Just run a "dry" exposure test on my recently acquired EOS-3 body. Measured outdoors on open shade off the 18% gray card and then off it's white (+2 stops) side. Compared with Sekonic L508 meter and Minolta 800si. Cameras where on A priority (Av of EOS-3), both set to ISO 100 (as well the meter). Measurements where in Spot metering mode. Guess what ? My EOS-3 seems to underexpose 1/3 - 2/3 stops (in some occasions the difference between the Sekonic and EOS-3 reached 1 stop !). Body's ID is ON0409 which presumably means it is produced in 1999 (please correct me if I'm wrong). I guess I run into the well known underexposure issue inherent into early batches of EOS-3 bodies. This weekend I'll run full film-based test on this issue in both Spot and Zone evaluative metering modes to evaluate the problem. The body isn't covered by any warranty, of course, but anyway I guess I should contact Canon authorized facility for calibration/firmware upgrade. BTW. Minolta in Spot metering produced very similar results to Sekonic and in many case it was really spot-on. Well done, Minolta !
Any opinions ? P.S. Mehrdad, are you there ? :-) Fell free to share proudly this info on MML. Regards, Alex Z * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
