Re: Re[4]: Bug in light metering on 5N body???

[Roland Mabo]

The standard recommendation in photo books is to underexpose slides 
slightly. No meter is perfect and it seems like it's harder to understand 
multisegment metering than centreweighted metering. Centerweighted metering 
tries to expose everything as medium grey and with centreweighted metering, 
the photographer has to overexpose in bright and sunny situations, like snow 
pictures for example. Years ago, many compact cameras had a "+1.5" button 
for snow pictures and when shooting into-the-un. Multisegment metering is 
like centreweighted metering which automatically activates the "+1.5 button" 
for high contrast situations, to keep the highlights as highlights. So that 
white comes out as white and not as medium grey.

I like this, I'm very impressed by this. It is of course not perfect, but 
it's closer to how the scene really looks like than what centreweighted 
metering can achieve.

Photography is all about *learning the metering system*, and to learn when 
to compensate. I have no problems with that. I had to learn with 
centreweighted metering, and with multisegment I have to learn again. But I 
use exposure compensation much less with multisegment metering than with 
centreweighted metering. And when I use it, I use lower values (+/- 0.5 EV) 
with multisegment than I use with centreweighted metering (+/- 1-2 EV). So, 
multisegment metering is much closer to the reality.

Best wishes,
Roland
From: Alin Flaider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:19 +0200
   Well, you may like lighter transparencies. I myself, prefer denser
   slides with details both in highlights and shadows. BTW, I used to
   shoot CTPrecisa as well.


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