P3D Re: exposure compensation

[CanterMike@xxxxxxx]

In digest 3510 George writes about metering:


<<...Do I need to compensate when I
have unusually dark or light subjects?
[snip]
These examples lead me to believe that the incident light approach will
not give the best results and you need to take the subject into account.
Automatic exposure will work better and no compensation is required...>>



In order: Yes, you will need to compensate SOMETIMES (but, obviously not with 
these two examples), and No, you aren't doing anything wrong.  For these 
examples, there must have been enough variety of subject tones in the rest of 
the scene to give you a reasonable reading.  However, if something pure white 
or dead black fills enough of the frame to overwhelm the meter, your steps 
will go much darker (down to 18% grey) or your bear will go much lighter (up 
to 18% grey).


Lets see what the S1 does on snow, or what happened with those pics of the 
black leather clad biker babes.



Mike C