I generally find the matrix metering most useful when shooting snaps of people. I suspect the algorithm favors that type of picture. When you are doing more deliberate work, the matrix really gets in the way because you have no clue what the meter is really doing. Center weighted or spot is the better choice much of the time.
-- Best regards, Bruce Monday, December 8, 2003, 10:42:08 AM, you wrote: ks> Exactly. ks> My MZ-S was the first multi-segment metered camera I owned and I was ks> absolutely stunned how merciless the camera overexposed slide film in some ks> situations. I almost sent the camera in for warranty repair but then ks> realised that it just did what it was designed for: If there is soemthing ks> dark in the upper part of the image where the program expects 'sky', it ks> screws up. ks> Switching to center weighed has put things back to normal immediately and ks> also allows for easier evaluation of necessary corrections. ks> Sven ks> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- ks> Von: Joseph Tainter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ks> Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2003 19:03 ks> An: pdml ks> Betreff: Peter Burian reviews the starkist... ks> in the January Shutterbug. He praises the camera, but faintly ks> (well-featured for a Pentax). He does note that the program metering ks> overexposes, which some of us have complained about in previous Pentax ks> cameras. ks> The metering is, of course, designed for color print film. I don't ks> understand why Pentax manuals don't suggest using center-weighted with ks> slide film (which I have long done). ks> So far, on the starkistdee, I have been using program metering. This is ks> experimental, though. If I get overexposed images (haven't so far) I ks> will change that knob permanently to center-weighted. ks> Joe
