I think the one stop difference is due to the way the multi-segment metering works. Notice the person in the highlight area on the the right-hand side of the lady. In the upper shot, the camera tries to compensate for the higher contrast, and thus selects a shorter exposure time.
This is a typical situation where using spot metering would give you much more consistent results. Jostein Quoting Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/2up.jpg > > Just nine seconds separate these two pics. They are almost identical > shots. Both were made with the istDs, both at a rating of 3200 ISO, both @ > 70mm, both at an aperture of 5.6, both using multi-segment metering, both > using auto focus (more on that later!), both on one of the automatic modes, > yet they are a stop apart, with the top pic made @ 1/30 sec and the bottom > @ 1/15. > > What crummy results these are. The pics, imo, should have an identical > exposure. They would were a funky old manual camera body being used. Is > this the kind of erratic results one can expect from high-tech cameras, or > is there some sort of failure to communicate or understand on my part? Why > would these pics be so far apart in their results? > > > Shel > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
