The proper answer, of course, is “it depends.” Pentax dslr metering is too hot to my taste, so in general walking around use I set -1/3 exp comp and go from there. My preferred setup for candid work is Av, with one dial controlling aperture and the other exp comp, so the baseline -1/3 gets me in the right zip code and I adjust as I eyeball the scene.
More considered shooting, like nature work, gets the incident meter and manual mode, with equivalent exp calculations as I see fit. In the studio I’m obsessive with the incident meter and manual mode, also offering gentle reminders to the talent to return to the correct spot. In the beginning of the shoot I glance at the histogram a couple times to make sure, then turn it off so the talent and I can examine/discuss progress using the preview screen. Sent from my phone, which I’m staring at instead of doing actual work. > On Mar 9, 2020, at 11:40 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m curious how people go about setting and checking exposure. My early > pentax DSLRs were really bad at metering, so I just got in the habit of > always checking the histogram. Blownout highlights really annoy me. I also > ran into an interesting metering issue with flowers and other saturated > colors, in that the metering isn’t color sensitive so that I’d blow out one > or two of the channels (usually red) while everything else had plenty of > lattitude. > > I have gotten to the point that if I’m not shooting action and running up > against the K-1s miserable buffering, I’ll just bracket nominal and under by > a couple of stops for safety, and not having to worry about it. Most of the > time the dynamic range on the later sensors is so good, that running a bit > under on the raw images is no problem at all. > > How do other people deal with this? > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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.
