----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:54 PM Subject: EOS 10d metering and shutter rants
> Here's some thought to get things moving here perhaps... > > I'm convinced the metering in the 10d could be better, or there is a > bug. Several times, while shooting a scene, shooting a series of 3 or > 4 shots, maybe a couple of seconds apart, I've had one of the images > be way underexposed. I check the EXIF info and find it's 2 or 3 stops > underexposed from the others with basically the same scene. > > Now with partial metering I understand how this can happen, but I'm > now using Evaluative mostly for the reason that I want more > consistancy when I'm blazing away at a really important time. > > I thought evaluative broke up the scene into many segments of a grid. > If indeed they do, the centre weighting of it would seem a bit > extreme. Lately I took 3 photos each about 2 seconds apart. There was > a slighty shift in some background elements, but exposure looked like > I'd been using partial metering. Even centre-weighted shouldn't have > given me 3 stops difference. How can 2 of the shots be so nicely > exposed, while one way under? I like evaluative most of the time, but > there seems to be some kind of bug in the camera exposure, or else > evaluative is more like simple centre-weighted than we've been lead to > believe. > > Isn't there some kind of database of scenes in camera memory that are > being compared? > ><snipped> > Jim Davis > Nature Photography > http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/ It's interesting you say that, because I've had the same occasional problem with my A2 and, more frequently, my 1n, when set on evaluative. I just never had the luxury of having an electronic note taker to tell me what the problem was. Skip Middleton www.shadowcatcherimagery.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
