On 6 Jul 2004 at 16:45, Tom C wrote: > I've put up four recent shots taken with the *ist D to demonstrate what I > had earlier mentioned regarding a perceived metering anomaly. > > The first three are badly overexposed. Exposure data is listed with the > photo. All were taken within a 60 second time span. All were taken with > multi-seg metering and Shutter Speed Priority AE mode. Image one was shot at > the exposure values the camera calculated for a 1 sec exposure with no EV > compensation. Realizing image 1 was overexposed, I adjusted EV -1.0 for image > 2, and EV -2.0 for image 3. Not understanding the results I shot image 4 at > much different settings with no EV compensation and the image is properly > exposed. > > Two basic issues: > > 1. Why the gross overexposure at slow shutter speeds?
Your results have much to do with the metering range of the camera I suspect? Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
