And one other thing - one image is portrait, the other landscape. Don't
forget how center-weighted metering usually assumes that the upper part of a
landscape frame is sky, and corrects for that - even if the camera is not
held in landscape format. Deoending on which way up or down you held the
camera for the first frame could have easily explained +/- 1 stop itself.
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Sharp
Sent: 09 July 2004 18:15
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: E1 vs. 10D, D100, D70, etc...
Nice shots Tom. I can't say I haven't gotten some myself, but here two
classic examples of how the metering works on my camera. Please! No comments
on content. Sometimes you have to use a camera for snapshots...
http://home.illicom.net/users/jsharp/personalphotos/DSC_0367%208X6.jpg
http://home.illicom.net/users/jsharp/personalphotos/DSC_0366%208X6.jpg
Both of these were shot raw, aperture priority mode, ISO 200, matrix
metering, tone comp auto, no saturation adjustments, white balance set to
cloudy, noise reduction auto, standard curve in the camera. All I did was
convert them to jpg and downsize for the web in NC.
Lens was set to f/5.6
Camera determined shutter speed on the first was 1/250 On the second one
1/60
IOW, there is a full 2 stop difference in what the camera determined was the
correct exposure, even though the shots were taken in identical lighting
less than 2 minutes apart. Can someone look at those scenes and tell me how
I could look at them and determine I needed to add *2 stops* of EV comp to
one to get an exposure that's similar to the other? If anything, I'd think
the camera would have underexposed the primary subject in the second frame
given the amount of sky showing. My OM's sure would have using center
weighted metering. What I'm seeing is the opposite of what I'd expect. But
who knows, maybe I'm just not that good at reading a scene...;)
--
Jim
Tom Scales wrote:
> Just to give you a reference, here are a few D100 shots. The top two
> were taken with the SB80DX flash bounced on its little built in bounce
> card. The next three were with the little popup flash (all five with
> the 60/2.8 Micro). The last two are just outdoor shots.
>
> All have very minimal post processing. Just levels and a touch of
> unsharp mask. The look just 'ok' on the web but are stunning in
> prints. I've found that any evaluation of the quality of the D100/D70
> that is done on a computer monitor undervalues the camera. It takes a
> good print, on a calibrated system, to make you go WOW. It does not,
> in my experience, take a heck of a lot of effort. I took the last one
> in Florida in the morning, printed it and framed it in Harrisburg that
> night and it was on my wall the next day.
>
> The last one is a 20x32" print, matted to 24x36" on my wall at work,
> printed on my Epson 7600. I 'upsized' it to 360dpi at that size in
Photoshop CS.
> The results are simply unbelievable. The third one (540) is a 16x20"
> matted to 20x24.
>
> My office is covered with my prints.
>
> Just my experience.
>
> Tom
>
>
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/Tom/MacroPages/pages/DSC_0308.htm
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/Tom/MacroPages/pages/DSC_0375.htm
>
>
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/Tom/NaturePages/pages/DSC_0540.htm
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/Tom/NaturePages/pages/DSC_0043.htm
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/New/pages/DSC_0542.htm
>
> http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/Tom/ArchitecturePages/pages/DSC_003
> 5.htm http://www.scalesfamily.com/images/New/pages/DSC_0511.htm
>
>
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