Whatever mode you used, my guess is that the camera went for the grey in the sky behind the trees. It can be rather tricky to figure out what the meter will think. Also in Av and Tv mode. So there is only one way to be sure to get it right. Shooting raw.
When I bought the camera (a DS), I had a lot of frustrations myself. After a while I tried raw, but could not get on top of converting. Then I downloaded Rawshooter Essential. This program has some auto correction features that were just what I needed. All I had to do was using ALT + E, and the program suggested a conversion. Often this is close to a good image, and it sure was a good starting point, to play with the image. I have learned a lot in a matter of little time using this. Most likely you will end up using raw sooner or later. So what I am saying is that _now_ might be the time to take that step. The general quality is better, and it does give you more headroom when shooting. Now I have upgraded to RSP, the pay version of RSE. There I have levels, curves and cropping in the converter. So now I do most of the tweaking in one program. The downside of this is that it makes me a bad photoshooper. But for now, I can live with that. Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Womer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20. mars 2006 03:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: ist D exposure question > > 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? > > Otherwise, the camera handles nicely, and I can use it > with my glasses on (a very nice thing indeed). TTL > flash exposures hoover, as others have noted. There's > dust on the sensor, but our cats make the house so > dusty that I don't want to try to clean it here. > > Rick > > > > http://www.photo.net/photos/RickW > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
