I’m very curious if anyone has done any side by side tests. Set up a scene, set the exposure on pure automatic, then by hand held meter, then by the histogram, and see how the results vary. It would also be interesting to see the final product of those different exposures.
A proper test would have a variety of scenes in a variety of lighting situations, back light, front light, random bright and dark areas, focusing on subjects in each. > On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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). Yeah, that’s pretty much what I said. > > 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. I just learned that if I didn’t watch the histogram, I’d blow things out. -- 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.
