Hi John, thanks for your comments. So you confirm my +0.3 EV as K10D standard behaviour. I've shot around 1,000 K10D pictures so far. During the early 300-400 shot I had two badly exposed pics (thoise around +2 to +3EV), one being daylight on a bright day and another one indoors with quite low tungsten light.
Then, during the latest 500 shots taken yesterday at Vence Carnival, I saw those say 20% shots overexposed more than "standard" 0.3% (mostly around + 1 or +1.5 EV and a few of them up to 2 or maybe even 3 stops). They were all daytime shots on a clear day. Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Whittingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 4:14 PM Subject: Re: K10D overexposure anyone? > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:42:02 +0100, 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 > > Mine seems to over expose +0.3 consistently, I've never had anything in > the > region of +2 +3 yet, but lees than 500 exposures taken. > > Regards, > > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The information transmitted is intended only for the person to whom it is > addressed and may contain > confidential and/or privileged material. If you have received an email in > error please notify Carmel College > on [EMAIL PROTECTED] then delete all copies of it from your systems. > > Although Carmel College scans incoming and outgoing emails and email > attachments for viruses we cannot > guarantee a communication to be free of all viruses nor accept any > responsibility for viruses. > > Although Carmel College monitors incoming and outgoing emails for > inappropriate content, the college cannot > be held responsible for the views or expressions of the author. > The views expressed may not necessarily be those of Carmel College and > Carmel College cannot be held > responsible for any loss or injury resulting from the contents of a > message. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > 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
