At 4:13 pm +0000 18/2/03, Paul Fawley wrote:
When our S2 with D type lens is set to program,aperture or shutter priority and matrix metering, it is 1 and a half to 2 stops under exposed.I find this mainly happens when you're set to matrix metering and you're outdoors. It takes the sky into account way too much - I've read it's because the camera's modelled on a film camera body, it actually meters outside the frame you see as well.
So I never use it on matrix, just center weighted or spot, and I tend to override the exposure permanently a little as a matter of course.
I find I tend to end up opening all the mid tones on .raw files, and I keep meaning to do a test where I shoot a raw file, then a jpeg and see how they compare (i.e. does the camera compensate when it makes a jpeg?)
The default in EX convertor is a straight line (linear) "curve" which would certainly look dreadful with say Sinarback files. I wonder (there's no instructions) whether you're supposed make yourself a standard curve as a default (as I seem to have done) or whether I'm having to compensate for the camera's metering shortcomings.
Mike Russell
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