In a message dated 10/31/2009 9:36:53 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Marnie-
You got me curious and I started looking through the menus on the Pentax. And yup, there's on/off settings for both auto exposure lock w/ AF lock and linking the auto exposure w/ the AF point. OTOH, I wonder if I'm doing something wrong when I use the AE-L function to meter off something brighter/darker and then focus/compose. - Pat ================ Going to check mine, but think I can do that too. I just didn't think of it soon enough. Nope, nothing wrong with using exposure lock. The other option is to use a graduated neutral density filter (think it is called that). Which is the more "photographer's way" to go. Several guys I talked to where using those in one particular situation we were all in (I need to get one). Some things, like Yosemite (light rock against sky, dark trees below) just have a dynamic range that is very challenging. I tried spot metering too, but that really didn't seem to help. (Thinking that all AE was really doing was overriding evaluative metering. I need to play with spot metering more too. Not sure why that didn't do it, actually.) Marnie :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- 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.
