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Forum: Pentax K-30 & K-50
12-30-2015, 10:37 AM
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metering mode will have a huge effect on how the camera reacts to a scene. as will the actual subject. a white cat in "adequate" light in spot metering will result in a very dark image. a black cat in the same light with same metering may have blown highlights everywhere. and "adequate" light is rather ambiguous to begin with. see the "sunny 16 rule". indoors, you may very well be in f4 1/25th of a second territory for a neutral gray subject.
that's just an example of why there's no simple answer.
your histogram will give you much more information and is much more reliable as to exposure than your eye or what you see in the viewfinder or on the LCD after the shot. If you truly want to get into how to expose properly for digital, I suggest googling "expose to the right" or "ETTR". learning how to read and "control" your histogram will give you much more consistent results.
however chimping a histogram requires time and patience, which for certain shots (action) you won't have. if that's the case, then we get back to metering mode, subject and exposure compensation controls.
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