It looks like there may be a little double talk in the manual. It says regarding Hyper P, "You can also use the TV dial and the AV dial to change the shutter speed and aperture while keeping the proper exposure". But later it says "You can set a custom function to compensate the sensitivity automatically to obtain the proper exposure when the conditions set are not obtaining the proper exposure". So it looks like the manual starts out describing Hyper P with a blanket statement that may only be true if a custom function is set".
I can't remember if the exposure warning was blinking or not... presumably so...
It looks like the default value for the custom function may be reverse of the default for the PZ-1p...?
Tom C.
From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: *ist D Metering Issue Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:12:05 +1000
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
