M8 metering (vs. R-D1)

[steve_l]

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Just got my M8!

 

I noticed that relying on meter for shots with high contrast lighting often results in blown highlights - something my R-D1 never did....on the R-D1 I just learned where to point the camera in the scene to lock the metering and compensate for dark or light areas and get the exposure I wanted (rather than using exposure compensation). It was really sensitive to the bottom middle of the scene...

 

I guess the M8 is more neutral and doesn't protect you from overexposure.....

 

Any tips from folks who have used the M8 a bunch on how to "play" the built-in metering pattern?

[joern]

Steve,

 

I have found out that with the M8 and C1 raw developing the rule is >expose to the left<.

 

An interesting article in the german LFI journal explains the inside camera 8bit coding with numerical values of the other 14bit stored in the DNG file on the fly.

So they take care for the shadows. The absolute higlights are mostly interpolated, other than with canon (and other?) cmos sensors.

 

Test it once. Underexpose 1-2 stops and recover the shadows within c1. And please let me know what do you think.

 

jørn

[steve_l]

Jern...

I read that article, it is definitely a different thing than my "expose to the right" Canon 1-Series....thanks for reminding me, when the M8 arrived yesterday I forgot everything and just started pressing the shutter button!

 

So, protect the highlights and don't worry about the shadows....I guess that is the new way to go!

 

I won't point the camera away from the light sources to make it expose a bit more any more....