Originally posted by Tjompen1968 I found when shooting in snowy mountains that the K-3 underexposed with about 1 stop in all pictures. When indoors or in non snowy conditions I find it to perform perfekt.
I use mostly evaluating metering.
Are you sure it is underexposed or is the camera perhaps working as intended and preventing the highlights from being blown? I have found that whenever the preview image or OOC jpeg looks underexposed there is always some part of the picture that is just at the border of being over exposed. In other words to protect that particular part of the picture the only thing it can do is reduce the exposure over the whole frame.
It may not be good for OOC jpegs or minimally processed raw files but I think it actually allows you to get the optimum image in post processing where you can easily adjust the exposure by lifting shadows and so on.
The issue I sometimes have is the opposite, that because the exposure meter seems to saturate it does not reduce the exposure sufficiently to avoid blowing out the highlights.
For this reason I always have the 'Highlight alert' turned on. I can easily see the blown highlights in the instant review without moving my eye from the viewfinder, and will shoot a second photo with reduced exposure if I see any significant red flashing on the LCD.