Joe,
Where did you get the information that it exposes for shadows when in multi-segment metering? I'm not trying to be argumentative. It would seem to me they should just call it expose for shadow mode, not a multi-segment metering mode.
The promo material says ''The *ist D�s sophisticated 16-segment multi-pattern metering system solves even the most complicated lighting conditions efficiently and instantly to produce beautifully exposed images frame after frame.'
Tom C.
From: jtainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: istD overexposure Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:38:43 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Here's an example of what I'm complaining about:
http://members.aol.com/ernreed/2bright.jpg
The only thing I did to this image was resize it in Photoshop Elements. Much of
the EXIF data seems to have survived this.
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Yep, the meter nicely exposed for the large shadow area right in the center of the image. This is what program metering is designed to do.
That said, center-weighted might have given the same result with this scene because the dark area is so well centered.
Basically, you've got a tough scene here with too large a contrast range. Color negative film might do better than digital with such a scene, but it would probably have difficulties too.
I think the bottom line is that there's not too much you could do with such a scene. We could advise you to recompose without the background, but if you are photographing moving kids, obviously that's hard.
You can probably fix the light foreground to some degree with PS Elements. Beyond that, I do recommend that you try center-weighted averaging.
Joe
