Nothing new in your comments about the metering. However, note the large bright spot on the left side of the lower photo. Based on your surmise, that big, bright area should have given the camera reason to stop down some, and I'd expect the exposures of the face to be a lot closer in the two photos.
Don't know which AF mode I was in. This was the first time I picked up the camera, and one of the very first shots I took with it. IAC, I'll not be relying on any automatic features in these cameras any time soon. For example, a friend loaned me her MZ-5n and today I was playing with the auto focus confirmation light. Were I to have relied on the light to establish when the focus was correct, it wouldn't have been in many instances. Focusing on a small object (a vase that stood about seven inches high and which was about 3.5 inches wide at the base) that had a strongly different color than the background (green v white, giving what I assumed was the needed contrast), the zone of acceptable focus according to the camera, was greater than six inches, which is just too great a variation for an object only about three or four feet away while using a 50mm lens. Relying on my eye alone gave better, i.e., more consistent results. Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 7/19/2005 10:56:51 PM > Subject: Re: The Nine Second Difference > > Shel, I would suspect the change in subject matter. In the second shot, the > person in the background has moved so that his head cuts off a very bright > background, probably quite enough to alter the exposure by one stop. With > such a subject, I would be tending towards centre-weighted metering to avoid > the potential problem. > > HTH > > As for the focusing, were you using AF-C or AF-S? In the first shot the > focus seems about right, but the second is way off, to such an extent that > to my eye, there is nothing in focus.
