I got the first couple of rolls shot in earnest with my KX back yesterday. They show 2 things: 1) M28/2.0 is fine at f/2.0 2) most of a stop of overexposure. The overexposure helped the roll of fuji print film I shot, but was a little hard on the velvia.
The most obvious cause of the problem is that the meter in the KX is a little off. This is easy to compensate for, once I conclude exactly how far off it is. I can rule out lens issues as I was shooting with three different lenses. There is one other possibility, given the mechanical shutter of the KX. I was shooting a fairly narrow range of shutter speeds, 1/30th to 1/125th, because it was a dark day and velvia is slow. While I normally see shutter timing issues at high or low speeds, could it be that the middling speeds of my KX are too slow, leading to overexposure of almost a stop? Anybody else with a KX or similarly-shuttered camera (was there one?) experienced this? Personally, I suspect a combination of the meter itself and faulty tone-analysis on my part. DJE
