This describes the Battery Check beep. That's actually how I
determined that my camera had the new circuit. The beeping I
experienced this afternoon was not in the Battery Check position,
though. It was in the Auto position. An Audi has been abandoned on
my street and it's all covered with leaves and filth and has about a
dozen stickers on it from the local police threatening to tow it
away (why it's still there I have no idea). Anyway, I decided to
snap a couple of photos of it and used the spot meter and Shadow
function to expose for deep shadows. After I'd snap the exposure the
camera would beep four or five times. I have no idea what that means
and the manual doesn't really explain it either. I tend to think
that it may have meant that even at 1/2000 of a second the shot was
still overexposed. I was shooting wide open with a 28mm F2.8 and
hoping that shooting wide open would give me a little less depth of
field. I wanted the car in focus and as little else as possible, but
I wanted the "open" angle from that lens. Even though it tends to
have way more DOF than I typically like I'm going through a phase
where I feel like everything I shoot is claustrophobic somehow and I
keep grabbing the 28. I was shooting Portra 160 VC and it wasn't
that bright out, but I noticed the meter really jumping into the
short exposure times. In all likelihood the beeps were telling me
I'd just overexposed my film, but I wish I knew what all the alerts
were for sure. I haven't had to adjust to a new camera since the
Carter administration, so I'm just feeling a little out of my
element. ;-)
-Rob
Your exposure was fine. When the picture is taken the spot and shadow
functions are automatically cleared and the meter is still on. It is
giving you a signal that the next picture will be overexposed with
whatever is in the frame at the time and without changing the
settings.
Winsor
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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