P3D RE: exposure compensation

["David W. Kesner" <drdave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

in p3d 3512 Mike Canter says:

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

For what it's worth I have taken a lot of snow shots with the RBT X3 
(Ricoh XRX3PF based) using aperture priority auto exposure in 
center-weighted mode and all have been right on (at least to my 
tastes). One of these is going out in the Alpha K folio this time. 
These have been in all kinds of different situations from noon sun in 
open fields to early morning in dense forests.

I have also taken a lot of shots with dark subjects on light 
backgrounds and light subjects on dark backgrounds and they have 
all turned out. It is a very rare instance where the metering system of 
the X3 is not right on.

Although I am not as old as most of you *{;-) I did come from the 
'manual' days and I had a hard time accepting the auto-exposure 
choices at first. I would use the AE lock to compensate and end up 
with over or under-exposed shots every time.

By the way, I have the Harley, but not the Biker Babe (I don't think 
my wife would like that label). If you could supply that I could run 
some exposure tests and let the list know!

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
drdave@xxxxxxxxxx