Originally Posted by explr1 
I sold mine two months ago in favor of a Canon after coming back from Mystic with 200+ dark pictures that were shot in bright sunlight.
Which is *exactly* how they should have come out when you used a spot meter on a white object as you did. This was user error, plain and simple. You basically *told* the camera to underexpose, and then complained when it did. The camera would have to have been defective to *not* produce a dark picture with those settings.