i have never seen what ENR has posted except when i manually compensated at least a stop overexposure on my *istD. the so-called shadow area of her image is overexposed too. there is something wrong with one of her settings or there is defective hardware.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Tainter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pdml" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:34 PM Subject: RE: istD overexposure > "In the multi-pattern metering mode, the PZ-1p measures the light > reaching the eight sensors of the control IC and determines the most > appropriate metering pattern for the situation. > > "This mode is designed to place priority on shadow areas: Under normal > lighting, it takes into account shadowy spots away from the central > area; In (sic) backlighting, it assumes that the main subject is in > shadow and gives more exposure to the darker central area after > calculating the proper amount of exposure compensation from the distance > to the subject."

