Don Gaikins wrote:
(Snip). . . I took a some pictures in the shade on a bright sunny day.
I used the OM2S in manual mode with the spot meter on the faces of the
subjects such that it indicated a correct exposure. There was bright
background. When I got the prints back from the processor (Wal-Mart)
the subjects were greatly underexposed. The people in the background
were correctly exposed.
What is going on here? I thought that the spot meter would indicate
the correct exposure for the subject in the prism regardless to the
background. Should I have use exposure compensation? If so can you
describe the proper technique?
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Don, I suspect there's nothing wrong with your technique. It's most
likley the processor at fault. For the print, they would use average
metering and the machine would apply a correction for what appeared to
be an over-exposed negative. This is always likely to happen - we are
at the mercy of the lab! Try looking at the negative to see if it looks
OK.
Regards,
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Ray
"The trouble with resisting temptation is
you never know when you'll get another chance!"
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