I haven't experienced overexposure problems, but I never shoot in straight program mode. In hyperprogram, TAv, Av and Tv modes, I get good exposure results. My exposure comp is usually at zero or plus .3. Paul On Feb 18, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Dario Bonazza wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
