On 20 May 2005 at 10:24, Don Sanderson wrote: > Here's one of the (rather crappy) shots from the play Wednesday night: > http://www.donsauction.com/pdml/UnderExp.htm with histogram. > > Forgive the composition, the girl in the middle is the neighbor. > (Had to shoot from the back, to short FL, yada yada, excuses.) > And the lovely mixed Tungsten/Fluorescent/Sodium lighting. :-( > > This was at ISO1600 on the D with Matrix (CW with this lens) > metering. M200/4 at 4. > > This is straight from RAW to web, full frame > All of the shots that night with 3 lenses were underexposed > by 1 or more stops. The other 2 lenses were FA's. > Had the LCD off as usual so I never looked at the histogram. > > Any ideas what went (or I did) wrong?
Nothing, you trusted the camera, matrix metering picked the best exposure to preserve the highlights for the given latitude, use adjust the brightness in PCR until the normal image gamma is restored. 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
