I assume your townscapes were uniformly lit for multisegment to expose correctly.
No, they were not. It was a bright sunny day - with many highlights and deep shadows.
Have you ever tried backlights or images with shadows? Then will burn out the highlights.
But that has nothing to do with the adjustment for negative or printfilm, it's a feature of the multisegment metering. It says in the MZ-5n manual that the multisegment metering is adjusted to give texture in dark areas. In backlighting, the multisegment metering sets exposure after the dark areas and skips the highlights. It automatically compensates to avoid a silouhette image, and this is the main difference between multisegment metering and centreweighted metering. The multisegment metering leaves the highglights as highlights, white comes out white.
When shooting into-the-sun, I get an exposure that's +0.5 EV more than I would like. If I switch to centreweighted metering, I get a heavy underexposure (-2 EV or more), so the multisegment metering is closer to how my eyes really saw the scene.
Best wishes, Roland
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