Paul, even though you apply +0.3 comp, do you, also, spot expose on the brightest area? This has been my practice, but with a -0.5 comp. Meter variation may be a factor, but my reasons are to help protect against blown highlights plus the hand holding benefit provided by increased shutter speed. Daylight shooting with virtually never more than 400ISO.
Jack --- On Sat, 10/30/10, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: 10K clicks on my K-7. Blog entry. > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 5:12 AM > > On Oct 30, 2010, at 1:16 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > > > Paul, you make some valid points. > > > > I should say that I experienced the "wow" of AF > improvement transiting from *istD to K10D. I think that > given that I still find K10D's AF adequate or sufficient for > /my/ kind of shooting, makes the improvements of K7 less > visible. > > > > It may also be the case that my copy of K10D was > somewhat above the average. I never had any AF precision > problems that I could discern. And the Katz Eye screen I > installed my-clumsy-self was spot on too, very much unlike > the saga I had with K7. > > > > I don't agree with you about the meter, though. It is > good but it is far from being spot on. It seems to > consistently expose to the left. > > "Consistently" is the key here. None of the other Pentax > DSLRs have achieved anything close to consistent exposure. I > frequently shoot with +0.3 exposure comp, so I suppose one > could say it's consistently underexposing, but that's within > the margin of error of personal taste in terms of a final > rendering starting point. > > > > But given the significantly better dark areas noise > performance of the camera, I just don't bother (lazy?) > tweaking the meter with expo-comp to make it expose to the > right. > > > > Also, it could be that local light between, say April > and October (inclusive) is quite different than light that I > saw in Chicago. Assuming you're closer to Chicago light-wise > than to me :-). > > > > Boris > > > > > > On 10/30/2010 1:52 AM, paul stenquist wrote: > >> Good read, Boris. Thanks for sharing your > observations. Some > >> interesting differences in my experience. First, I > never use the > >> electronic level. I find it a distraction. Second, > I find the > >> autofocus considerably better than any previous > Pentax camera. I > >> shoot a lot of action, and the K-7 locks on much > better than my K20D. > >> I shot a kiddy halloween parade today at Graces > school and I don't > >> think the autofocus missed on even a single shot > of these moving > >> subjects in somewhat low light. Finally, I think > the exposure is > >> close to spot on. A huge improvement over previous > Pentax models. > >> Paul > > > > -- > > 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. > -- 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.
