Don-
My guess is that the bright background fooled the Walmart printer process.
It looks at the negative much like an averaging meter looks at the scene.
The printer probably adjusted for the bright spot, so the foreground came
out dark. You can have them reprint them, paying attention to the proper
exposure. I've seen it a lot. You take the time and effort to expose the
negative correctly, only to have the printer defeat your work. I've also
found that my exposures are on target a lot more than the machine prints
show, as proven by the film scanner.
-Mickey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don" <dong357@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: [OM] Another question
> This list is great! A couple of weeks ago I asked a question about using
> the T32 flash with the OM2S and got a very good answer. I used it in the
> OTF mode while on vacation and most of my flash pictures came out great.
>
> Now I have another question. 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?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Don Gaikins
>
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