P3D Re: Auto Exposure

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

In p3d 3586 Gary Schacker writes:

> Auto exposure will almost always be a disappointment when shooting slide
> film if you think the system is going to allow you to take one shot each
> time and nail it.

This might be the case for most simple point and shoot cameras, 
but it is definitely not the case with good 35mm's. In my case the 
RBT X3 which is based on the Ricoh XR-X3PF has performed 
near flawlessly in a great variety of lighting conditions. One of its 
greatest abilities is to correctly judge very low light conditions. I am 
talking about night shots with exposures over eight seconds.

Now to qualify this I will say that I do use the AEL (auto exposure 
lock) when I am shooting backlit scenes or scenes with a very large 
range of lighting. I also shoot exclusively in center weighted 
average meter mode and never use the spot meter mode.

That's all for now,

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