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Don't worry, I don't believe you will have offended anybody (unless they're very sensitive)! My hypothesis as to why (spot) metering of darker faces doesn't work is as follows. The lightmeter assumes 18% gray reflectance. However, in this case, the reflectance will be much lower. In an attempt to turn the image into an 18% gray image, the lightmeter will overexpose. Therefore you need to underexpose by maybe a stop or two, but I'm guessing. The opposite is true if you try photographing something really white eg snow or possibly sand at midday. (I hope I've got this the right way round...) If anyone has a definitive answer, I too would be interested to know as I'm about to go travelling around Mali. Cheers, Henry Frantisek Vlcek wrote: > **: BTW, I have never had good luck with spotmetering faces of dark to > black skinned people - what is the best zone to put the spot reading > on? Especially with people of middle African origin - dark but not > completely darkskinned, and of course people of completely black skin > colour - what is the proper zone to put a spot reading of their face on?) > > //Please - nothing rascist in this question - English is > not my primary language so I really don't know what is no longer > considered correct or polite in some matters, as it can change faster > than I can update my knowledge// ---------------------- Henry Knowles, Electrical & Electronic Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
