I find metering very easy. I do bracketing - mostly three shots, when working with my K20 of K10. I don't have time for guessing and experimenting a lot. I often use TvA program for shooting in varied light conditions. I set the shutter to perhaps 1/250 and the aperture to F:8. Then i simply consentrate on my subject. I get sharp pictures, and almost always one, exposed right. Grain/noise is not a problem, when I sell pictures. The costumers just want sharp images. Grain is not really an issue. I often set the meter to -1/3 stop, in order to avoid burned highlights. Naturally I shot RAW exclusively.
I also find the matrix metering on my K20 excellent. I recently did a lot of snow images. The snow was really WHITE - not grey. Burnded highlights were easily removed in Capture One 4.1 Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. On Feb 26, 2009 04:31 "Adam Maas" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
