----- Original Message ----- From: "Dario Bonazza" Subject: K10D overexposure anyone?
>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? > I'm finding with the K10 I am futzing with exposure comp more than I did with the istD, but this could be situationally dependant, since most of my metered pictures are of my dogs playing in the snow. I really haven't had the chance to use the camera much under "normal" shooting conditions yet. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
