On 19 Mar 2006 at 18:44, Rick Womer wrote: > Today I was finally able to do some shooting with my > new-to-me ist D. I used the highest-quality jpeg > setting (raw will have to wait a bit). > > Most of the pix were nicely exposed, but some of them > were badly underexposed, even though the scenes didn't > seem especially challenging and no exposure > compensation was set. > > Two examples are here, along with copies whose levels > I adjusted in PE2 to show that the information is > really there: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=583164 > > (ist D, DA16-45, iso 200, multipattern metering, f/11 > @ 1/180) > > Can anyone tell me what's happening? Is this typical?
Pretty normal and not a bad exposure really, the camera has compensated a little in order to accommodate the highlights. Your adjusted images however look quite washed out, try just adjusting the gamma. IOW if using PS adjust the middle arrow in the levels control tool to brighten the images (~1.2 for the first and ~1.35 for the second), this way you won't loose your blacks. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
