On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Nick David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > I personally really hate that process. Shoot, chimp, shoot, chimp. I like to > just be able to shoot and know that the photo was exposed the way I wanted it. > > That's one of the myriad reasons I was so anxious to switch back to Pentax, > in my experience with the cameras in the past the meters were extremely > reliable. And I'm finding that's still true today, even with my older Program > Plus. Even in tricky situations it -- for the most part -- chooses the > exposure I would've chosen. I love it. > > So maybe I really don't need a separate light meter after all? That nasty old > gear-headedness poking its head up again. ;) > > ~Nick David Wright > http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ >
My experience with camera meters is that pretty much everybody can do spot and centre-weighted right. But Matrix/Multi-segment is hard to get right, requiring either a large number of cells or some very good design work. The only low-cell count matrix meter I ever found to be any good is the original Nikon 5-cell Matrix meter used on the FA, F801(s), F601(m) and F4. The worst I've used are the Minolta/Sony's (Completely useless in low light with any point light sources). I found Canon and Pentax do deliver similar results, the Pentax are marginally better at the low end and the Canons better at the high end (the 60+ or 35 cells in the 1D/1Ds meters tells over a lower cell count). The best multi-segment metering, by a large margin, is the Nikon 1005 pixel Color Matrix Meter in both variations. Very hard to bamboozle that meter. But the histogram is an actual measure of how good your exposure is. However its only truly useful for the RAW shooter as a good histogram delivers the best data, not necessarily the best looking JPEG. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
