Originally posted by Gooshin did you shoot slides, or negatives?
particulary with negatives, you could really screw up on your metering and still get a good shot.
I shot both, but lots and lots of slides. I am someone who always liked to meter off a lighted area in a scene before taking my shot (and then setting exposure manually), but with the PZ-1P, I got more comfortable with it's mult segment metering, because even with slides in backlit situations, it more often than none always nailed the metering. If I use something else other than the PZ-1P, I do above as I mention, so any basic functioning SLR meter is going to get me a fine tuned exposure.
I've tried a few things with my K20, but I am starting to wonder if it could be the AWB throwing things off? I can't figure out why that would be, as I took a shot of someone sitting in a chair in complete, even sunlight, no backlighting, and no shadows, just even light, and it was underexposed. Would the AWB mess even a brightly lit sun exposure up?