What lenses are you using? what capture mode? With F, FA and DA lenses, all AE modes, so far I'm getting exposure results that are just about on the money for RAW capture. Much more accurate and consistent than with the DS using the same lenses and capture mode.
Godfrey On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:42 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? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
