Thanks Boris. So you found the D prone to overexpose? Amazing. You are the first one telling me that. My experience (and a lot of others') say underexposure. However, I found the D to be far more foreseeable, while the K10D is sort of a guess. I have to check all pictures one by one. Shot two pictures in quick sequence (with the same framing and same settings) and you often get two different exposures. My D doesn't do that.
Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: Re: K10D overexposure anyone? > Dario, > > I find my K10D to be exposing consistently right if set in matrix > metering. However, the brightest Middle Eastern days are still ahead and > I couldn't tell how it would behave thence. However, I find that I trust > it more than I used to trust my *istD, which often would make me dial > -0.3 or -0.7 Ev correction. > > Boris > > > 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
