Actually, if camera companies included this type of user exposure meter calibration along with AF calibration and stuck pixel remapping into their frimware I suspect that they would seeing half the number of cameras returned for repair. Of course they would probably see twice that number returned for user mis-calibration .....
On 12/15/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something just occured to me, do these cameras (any > of the pentax DSLRS ever made) have a global meter > compensation setting, preferably in the custom function > or a buried menu that will allow you to compensate > for these type of things and essentailly allow the > USER to calibrate the metering to whatever standard > he wants or to allow perfect matching of multiple bodies? > If not, I think it would be a very good and important > feature to have available... > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 9:23 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Need Advice: value of an *istD outfit > > > I think the notion was that they are mechanically compatible. I agree > they might throw off the metering accuracy. > > G > > On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Thibouille wrote: > > > No they are not. > > Screen are not the same (they are brighter) than ist/K100D so you will > > > get exposure problems using those in a K10D. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- <----------------------------------------------------> Perry Pellechia Primary email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://homer.chem.sc.edu/perry <----------------------------------------------------> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
