Joe, what you're telling me is that it's a dopey center-weighted meter that just adjusts for the darker areas of the image. I thought it was more than that. If that's all it does it's pretty stinking useless.
Maybe some attribute of the sensor itself causes an electronic 'flare' that ends up being overexposure? I'm way out of my league with the last sentence... just guessing.
Tom C.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: istD overexposure Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:24:43 CDT
> Program metering will overexpose light areas in high-contrast light. It
> is designed to bring out detail in shadow areas. Best advice: Don't use it.
>
> I do not have any problem with my *ist D overexposing. The reason is
> because I use center-weighted averaging, which gives me consistently
> good exposures. Before that I used center-weighted averaging for slide
> film on my PZ-1p bodies. After a while I stopped bracketing with slide
> film because it was not necessary.
>
> I think program metering was developed so that people could see facial
> details in underexposed images of backlit relatives.
OK, I'll stick to centre-weight for a while and see if that helps.
I just think it's very funny (or will be when I forget what the istD cost) that
the Optio can get it right 'most every time, but ...
ERN
