I haven’t wasted time doing this, but I know from a half century of experience that by the time I had rendered all they would be identical.
Paul > On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:24 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
