jbl Posted May 2, 2014 Share #41 Posted May 2, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) This sounds a bit similar to what I was trying to say in my post. Unfortunately for me, I can't force myself into film metering mode. For some reason I can think EV values when shooting film and not when shooting digital. One thing I did notice though... I was doing some test shooting metering using an incident meter and I was consistently under exposing 1/2 to 1 stop. I need to actually fully profile the sensor which I've not gotten around too. More often recently, I find myself saying to myself "trust your meter" even though I'm "properly exposed" relative to the meter even though I'm pointing at my Caucasian daughter. I expose up, I get in trouble. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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luigi bertolotti Posted May 2, 2014 Share #42 Posted May 2, 2014 This.I've had the M for 2 days now and took it out today for the first time. I've been a bit puzzled by exposure. (I use only manual with all my cameras). I was a bit confused by the readings I was getting : not the settings I was used to with my M6. Then the review and histogram were way off compared to the meter, like : I would follow the meter to the half stop but my pictures were way over-exposed on the review. But I didn't worry too much because the histogram is based on the camera preview, it's not what you really get on the DNG. Anyway, after a while I stopped using the camera meter altogether and just relied on experience (or "the force"). Eventually I got home and once uploaded to the computer, all the images were ok, as in : I could recover highlights from all but a couple of shots. My first impression though is that the photos were I simply used the settings I would use on my M6 were better exposed. I will have to properly test this tomorrow and compare the camera metering of different subjects with my sekonic incident meter. Exactly what I felt the first time I used my M : on the screen, impression of a certain overexposure, but when in Lightroom, all OK : I tried a -0,7 EV correction... and the LCD image looks better, and you see the underexposure in LR; so, better of course to leave correction at 0 when working in A mode; who knows ? Maybe a future fw update could correct this minor issue... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenicolas Posted May 2, 2014 Share #43 Posted May 2, 2014 I'm gonna start with tweaking with the in-camera settings. So far I'm using the factory default for contrast, sharpness etc. I'm gonna see if I can find a setting that makes the preview closer to what I get in the dng. Regards to forcing myself into "ev mode", I find it just as easy with digital, but I have to trust myself and ignore the meter. After living in this town for years, I just know a sunny day is 1/500 @ f/4 100iso. the metro is 1/60 @ f/2 800iso etc... Then I just adjust for slight changes as the day goes... sent from a phone with auto-correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lethbrp Posted May 2, 2014 Share #44 Posted May 2, 2014 Not really. I never use exposure compensation. Too much of guesswork for me. I prefer the precision of spot metering. I would have thought that if you are using spot metering, you would be using exposure comp pretty much all the time, unless you only take images of 18% grey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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