| No magic involved. I don't use exposure compensation on the K20D. When I was using the K100D I used it. For me that was one of the great (and unexpected) benefits of upgrading cameras....having my Takumars meter correctly. I also have Auto EV Compensation enabled in the custom menu, so maybe that has something to do with it. I've never done a test to find out.
On the K100D I used the aluminum foil fix to minimize the metering problem. For those who don't know what that is, you just tear a little strip of aluminum foil to fit across the electrical contacts on the face of the body's lens mount and tape it in place. That will let you either entirely do away with or drastically reduce the amount of EV compensation you need with M42 lenses.
I still love my K100D, but it is a dedicated K-mount shooter now. She took somewhere around 17,000 aluminum foil assisted Takumar shots,though. |