Originally posted by elliott Depends on how you are judging exposure, what if the person with 9 underexposed did it for a reason?
Judging exposure when there is something white, and the outcome comes white and not as middle grey like cameras interpret the white tones but not blown and with plenty of detail, and if you look at the histogram is filled with data on it, shadows-midtones-highlights.
Originally posted by patrick9 Personally I prefer my shots a touch under exposed, If I handed you my camera odds are it is in M with a M lens or P. if my DA is on. If in P it will have an -.5 EV. That is just my preference , not because I don't know what I am doing. I do shoot mostly outdoors If indoors th EV is set to 0.0 , and I will darken if needed in PP. I tend to march to a different drummer. That may be why I choose Pentax. It is what I like and I am not worried about others opinion of me or my tools. I do have a neighbor that has bought a Cannon a few months ago. after watching me shoot fireworks his kids were setting off. The other day I asked him how the new camera was going . He said it stayed on auto but he would like to use it better. He has been invited to go shoot with a friend and me to learn more. We go out a couple Saturday mornings a month. I don't know anything about Cannon but we are sure we can get him comfortable off of auto
My camera is always on M mode, rarely on P.. But I understand what you do here.. But having always on -.5 EV could be troublesome depending on the metering you are using and if there is White tones and black on the scene. You are still underexposing something that by nature is underexposed.
If I hand my camera to somebody else to take me a picture with my GF for example, then I will switch it to Auto... I don't want to take the risk of a crap picture, at least I will have an "auto" raw that can be corrected lol..
Kudos... That's the attitude, friends don't let friends take pictures in Auto, you must push them to go out of the "comfort" zone