Originally posted by F-Stop Don't get me wrong, I've taken some amazing shots with either camera. I just cannot rely on any of the three metering modes for correct exposure mostly during outdoor/landscape photography and expect to nail it more than 50-60% of the time. I've taken around 30,000 photos between the K100D and K20D and then double that in 'preview' shots due to exposure issues.
If there's something I'm doing wrong then I'm all ears/eyes. I'm basing my judgement on real world results from myself and what an average or perhaps in this case advanced user has shown.
With my K10D I was able to use spot metering with success, but at times it needed a few test shots to fine tune the exposure (The spot metering was accurate, but I wasn't always getting the reading from the right spot to get an accuarate exposure of the whole scene, which is what the matrix metering is supposed to do) - I assumed it was part of the dslr experience until I got the k-7, and now I only use matrix metering. So, I totally understand your exposure issues as your cameras share the same metering.
The matrix metering with my k10D can best be described as just working randomly, I could never fine tune it with test shots. It almost seems like magic when the k-7 gets it right every time - even in flash P-TTL, which after 1 year of use, I finally fooled the p-TTL two weeks ago when I took a shot of a person standing right in front a wall of windows.