On the way to the car, I notice that I'd left the shutter speed dial
at 1/2000th. I was shooting at about f5.6, and on the overcast day,
the meter was reading between 1/125th and 1/250th. I was between 3
and 4 stops underexposed. Poop!
Been there, done that, got the poorly exposed film and self-inflicted bruises
on my derriere to prove it. I have done it a few times recently, also. But
that probably says more baout me than the camera.
No, it's the camera; you should have used an MESuper instead ;-)
I actually did almost exactly the same trick yesterday, with my body of
said type, only on that the obvious choice for speed is 1/125. Which
saved the day, as that turned out to be a quite suitable exposure time
for the lighting conditions and the aperture I was using ;-)
- T
