At 11:22 PM +0200 11/29/02, Alex Zabrovsky wrote:
All SLR's are affected. Some have put diodes facing the eyepiece to counter the effects of light coming in from the back, but this doesn't and can't work reliably with matrix metering. The only thing that works is to cover the eyepiece, one way or another, or to meter and set the exposure manually. No big deal. Get used to it. Learn your camera, practice and _learn from your mistakes_. The operative word is _LEARN_.Interesting why Minolta SLRs are considerably less sensitive to this issue ?
Your example of multi-hour night exposure should show you your mistake. If it was overexposed, it meant that the poor thing was trying to make an 18% grey of the night sky with a few stars in it. You don't want it grey, you want it black. Meter manually; or rather, bracket, figure out the exposure and use that when it gets serious. If light had entered the eypiece, underexposure would be the result. Don't blame that mistake on light entering the eyepiece.
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