--- Alex Zabrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted this thread a while ago but due to some new > info I would like to > re-assert it again. > I noticed my EOS-3 body is quite sensitive to > backlight entering the finder > while it is exposed )not looking through it and no > eyepiece shutter is > used). I noticed the metering changes in wide > boundaries (ranging from 1/3 > to as high as 1, 1.5 stops). > Being traditionally Minolta user I do not remember > such sensitivity level of > my 700si/800si bodies (if anybody here familiar with > them). > I just spoke with Canon authorized lab and they > approved that EOS bodies (as > well Nikon's) are built in the way that light > sensitive (exposure metering) > sensors are located in the way that light streaking > the finder will directly > hit the sensors influencing greatly the metering > (hence the eyepiece shutter > is the must), while he acknowledged that Minolta > behalves more reliably in > such situation.
I haven't made much use of Minolta's since the old SRT-101 model, about 30 years ago. BUT, any SLR that has the metering sensors in the pentaprism head, reading off the viewfinder screen, is going to measure light reflected off the screen just as it reads light coming through the screen. There's no way for the metering cells to tell the difference. AND, every AF SLR I'm familiar with meters off the screen. There's just no room elswhere in the body for the kind of sophisticated, multi-sensor meters in use today. While the specific location of the sensors may make some difference in sensitivity to light coming through the viewfinder, every AF SLR I've used or played with shows the problem. When your eye is against the viewfinder (even wearing glasses, like I do), it really isn't a problem. And if you're metering with your eye away from the viewfinder, just hang a rear lens cap or somthing similar over the eyepiece. ===== Bob Meyer I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger... http://www.meyerweb.net/epson __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
