Originally posted by clackers Here is a photo you took with your K-3 doing this.
The clouds are blown.
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Same as the three photographs as you've posted in this thread - there are big dark areas in the scenes, which you need to acknowledge in the shooting process, not later in post processing.
If you're unsure how much to underexpose, you can ask the camera to do something about it by selecting 'Highlight Correction' as an option.
That example was shot with manual exposure so isn't a useful comparison. And the partly blown clouds were mostly caused by increasing contrast in post-processing, in the RAW there is some, but little, clipping.
I tried the highlight correction setting but I think it only applies on jpg (not sure). I don't see any difference but I know I always had it disabled on the K-3.
The point is that, in similar situations with high contrast, the K-3 seemed to err on the safe side and expose for the light areas, underexposing the dark parts - which I feel is preferable. This is clear in the example I posted. The K-3II seems to go the other way, which is strange to me because I assumed it's basically the same camera apart from a few minor features. I admit it's hard to be sure without being able to compare them directly. Maybe I'm imagining things and there's actually nothing wrong, I'll see if I can try a demo model in the store for comparison.