How can you go wrong if you did not lost any information ? I am talking here about evenly lit object. Ok, if that black door has small white dots that you don't want to be blown and they are too small for matrix metering to take them into account that is another thing as you are obviously loosing information about them. :) But plain black or white door should not have problems with that. :)
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Zaninovic" > Subject: Re: Understanding exposure? Recommendations? > > > > Well, you captured all the info that the door has to offer, maybe even > > more than if you compensated as you could blown highlights on > > white door or make the black door too dark. When you shoot raw it would > > not matter. > > If you trust your meter blindly, metering either a white or black object and > basing the exposure on that reading will result in an exposure error on the > order of 3-4 stops. > It doesn't matter what you shoot, you aren't going to fix that sort of > exposure error. > > William Robb > >
