Larry Colen wrote: >Im 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.
I check the histogram, expose to the right but avoid any white clipping, and underexpose if there's any doubt (the K-1 is ISO-invariant so it's fine to just bring up the exposure in Lightroom). But man, you're right about the metering in early Pentax DSLR's - at least the multi-segment metering. With the K10-D and K20-D you could have a shot with 6 or 7 of the 16 segments completely blown out - full 255/255/255 clipping - and the metering algorithms would say "yeah, that looks like a good exposure to me". I just used center-weighted metering with those cameras. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
