Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-04-2012, 09:31 AM
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2012, 06:05 PM
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I think I'll just go back to Catholic Answers forum to precipitate more debates. Whoops, can't, been banned there.
The discussion was helpful. Thanks to all that answered. Good theoretical and practical advise. I really feel sorry for folks that didn't grow up on a manual film B&W, Developing their own negatives.
It must really be impossible for them to take something a little different like a white duck in sunlight with AE and AF and all those knobs. Manual is simpler.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2012, 04:34 PM
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Dudes...I am just trying to get a picture of a white duck. I did not ask if he was 12 or 18 percent grey.
Just looking for practical experience.
Very interesting stuff here on this thread, but it has gone off to the milky way. :)
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2012, 12:49 PM
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I have a K-5. I didn't understand what matrix metering is. I just now read up on it and will try again with multisegment metering and setting the AE to the AF point. Just going to multisegment doesn't really tell me what the camera is going to do if it has 77 different solutions. At least I can't get that from manual.
It seems to me that if it uses all 77 segments and guesses how to expose the whole scene, the duck would be even lighter.
I usually try to use spot metering and focus and then reframe the composition before tripping the shutter. But I didn't yesterday and the bird was big time blown out.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2012, 08:30 AM
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I just noticed I had it on center weighting instead of spot. But do you all regularly underexpose. This was taken with a 300mm f4.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
01-03-2012, 08:20 AM
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White duck on a pond in sunlight.
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