Thanks Joe. I'll try it for a couple of weeks and see what happens. It's
easy enough to adjust the EV in what could be difficult circumstances.
Tom C.
From: jtainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: istD overexposure
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:00:37 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
Tom, the most definitive place I have seen this is in the promotional
brochure that Pentax sent me for the PZ-1p. I was amazed to see Pentax
acknowledge this. It was also discussed on the list 2 or 3 years ago. I am
being only partially facetious when I say that program metering seems to
have been designed for photos of underexposed, backlit relatives.
Often program metering does fine, particularly in moderately-contrasting
light. If it works for you, use it. I got burned buying a ZX-50 a few years
ago that had only program metering. It consistently overexposed in the kind
of light I experience (bright and high contrast). The camera was nearly
unusable with slide film. I gave that camera to my wife and bought two
PZ-1p bodies. I used those with center-weighted averaging, and consistently
got properly exposed slides. The metering was so accurate that I stopped
bracketing. When my *ist D arrived I never gave program metering a thought.
One of the first things I did was to set metering to center-weighted. I am
happy with the exposures.
Joe
