I find my K10D to be adjuted for slight overexposure, let's say around +0.3 stops, as opposed to the *istD tipically showing around -0.7 to -1 underexposure. Maybe the *istD was trying to protect again burnt-out highlights, while the K10D is mostly trying to fight noise. Anyway, I consider those above being just different designers' choice, and not a big problem when you are aware of that.
However, very often (10-30% of shots, according to different shooting situations) my K10D gives badly overexposed readings, far exceeeding that +0.3 reported above. It's not uncommon I get say +2 to +3 stops overexposure, which means pure crap. Not sure, but apparently the bad behavior occurs much more in bright sunlight. The camera was set to P and auto ISO setting, hence no risk to fall outside hardware capabilities for getting proper exposure. I tried both multi-pattern and center-balanced metering, with little difference. Maybe multi-pattern is more prone to wild overexposure than center-balanced, but I'm not yet sure of that. Another K10D owned by a friend of mine does exactly the same. Has anyone else seen such a behavior? Dario -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
