Shel, As a follow on, prior to matrix metering and wide latitude print films, I preferred manual mode for precisely the type of problem that you refer to.
Bruce Saturday, May 04, 2002, 7:17:32 AM, you wrote: SB> I decided to exercise the ME Supers this week, and was thinking how nice SB> it would be not to have to think about exposure settings. I'd just put SB> the camera on automatic, set an aperture, and fire away. SB> Well, that was a fantasy! Here's the routine - camera set on auto, SB> focus shot, note reading out of the corner of my eye, reframe for subtle SB> compositional elements, exposure changes because the balance of light SB> read by the meter is slightly different even though the overall light SB> has not changed. Gotta think - which is the right exposure? What's SB> changed in the viewfinder? Is something very bright or very dark now in SB> the scene. What's the metering pattern for the ME S? SB> Unacceptable ... it's more work than using a spot meter or an incident SB> meter to read the scene and then just setting the camera and not SB> worrying about the details of exposure. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
