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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-16-2019, 01:59 PM
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I would expect the meter to underexpose that scene, at least one stop, maybe two. With that lens or the Helios, the camera is using center-weighted metering, but that probably is a technicality. You should see a histogram on the rear LCD when shooting, and I bet that shot has a big lump just left of center, with nothing on the right. When you see a histogram like that, you should change exposure so the next shot's histogram is just shy of touching the right side.
At 1/3000, you're probably not getting motion blur!
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Pet peeve of mine. There is no way that +25 is correct for every camera on earth. I think it is overkill for most Pentax models.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
01-16-2019, 12:28 PM
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It is probably the same sensor as the Nikon D60, so you should get close to the same output with the right settings. Since the sensor is older, getting the exposure exactly right is way better than trying to post-process the exposure. Since you say you're shooting snow scenes and getting greyish shots, that makes me think the camera is underexposing the snow. You know the snow should be brighter so you brighten up the image in processing, which brightens up the noise so you can see it. The camera has a snow scene mode which tries to correct for that, or there are lots of ways for you to adjust for it. "Purple" makes me think you're also seeing purple fringing, which is common in high contrast scenes on digital with some lenses.
If you can post an unprocessed shot with the EXIF data intact, it would be easier to tell you what you could do better. It doesn't have to be awesome.
Phone photos get manipulated a lot before you even see them (on the phone screen).
Edit: slowest typist award! Anyway, the K-m is recommended by 100% of the users here, so it's not all bad.
Edit2: scene modes probably won't work with the Helios or Sonnar because they are fully manual.
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