Gosh, Shel, give the poor camera a break! This is a very, very tough shot for a little microchip. You've got background highlights, a very bright background highlight on the left, a midtone face, and a black hat.
This is what they put spot meters in cameras for. Rick --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail for Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail
