Thanks Bruce. Half of my overexposed pics were shot in multi-pattern metering, and half with center weighted. I think that probably the wildest exposures were made in matrix metering, while maybe those shot with center weighted were just less off (peaking at +1 or +1.5 instead of + 2 or +3).
Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:14 PM Subject: Re: K10D overexposure anyone? >I haven't noticed any problems, but then, I use center weighted and > manual. I meter just about like I was using an MX. Pick something > that has a medium tone for metering and set the meter accordingly, > then compose, focus and shoot. > > -- > Bruce > > > Sunday, February 18, 2007, 8:24:30 AM, you wrote: > > PS> I haven't experienced overexposure problems, but I never shoot in > PS> straight program mode. In hyperprogram, TAv, Av and Tv modes, I get > PS> good exposure results. My exposure comp is usually at zero or plus .3. > PS> Paul > PS> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
