On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Powell Hargrave wrote:
There is usually some change in the image which causes the difference. In this image I would suggest the bright area to the right of her eyes caused the first to cut back the exposure as the camera attempts to keep some detail there. In the second this is blocked. Both images are usable and you can always operate the camera in manual or with centre weighted metering.
Absolutely, particularly the last sentence. Kostas (I did not, chop off Shel's headers below)
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/2up.jpg Just nine seconds separate these two pics. They are almost identical shots. Both were made with the istDs, both at a rating of 3200 ISO, both @ 70mm, both at an aperture of 5.6, both using multi-segment metering, both using auto focus (more on that later!), both on one of the automatic modes, yet they are a stop apart, with the top pic made @ 1/30 sec and the bottom @ 1/15. What crummy results these are. The pics, imo, should have an identical exposure. They would were a funky old manual camera body being used. Is this the kind of erratic results one can expect from high-tech cameras, or is there some sort of failure to communicate or understand on my part? Why would these pics be so far apart in their results? Shel
