Originally posted by Lenscap Phil- I'm shooting with a couple of K1000s that are recent visitors to Eric. Therefore, I trust the accuracy of their meters. I'm also shooting a KX that visited Eric in the same time frame, so I trust its metering as well. Given the different metering systems, what should I notice in the pictures taken with one vs the other? Or will I notice a difference? FWIW, I kind of feel like my KX pics "pop" more than my K1000 pics. Whether that's a result of the metering, or different films, or lens characteristics, or entirely my imagination, I couldn't say.
And Les: I have no Costcos close to me, but I do have Sams. I'll be checking them out.
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ChrisPlatt- I have no real beef with the match needle system of the KX and K2; I just like the always-ready attitude of the K1000s meter. If my KX would be metering all the time with its full-info VF, we'd durn sure have a winner.
That said, the KX just keeps proving itself and working its way into Most Favored Camera status.
I would assume that you will see the difference when you are metering a black target on a white background or viceversa: if the spotmeter is average will make you the average of background and target, if it's center balanced or even more a spotmeter it will give you the exact reading of the subject...so let's say it's the first case, the average spotmeter might give you to say 5.6 while the center balanced will give you f4 and the spotmeter f2.8 perhaps, it depends by how the target fills the center and the spot area.
I've seen the difference between the AE and the PE screens on my F-1N,it's not subtle at all.