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[OM] Re: Wild, wooley Matrix Metering

Subject: [OM] Re: Wild, wooley Matrix Metering
From: edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 19:36:04 -0400
Like I used to say in my camera-salesman days... "Only from the 'blind' of 
Minolta..."

Earl

On Tuesday 25 May 2004 21:31, you wrote:
> Sometimes, there just isn't any excuse.  Morons R Us.
>
> With my beloved OM-2S, I can meter and override the meter like
> there is no tomorrow.  Rarely do I ever blow an exposure.  OTF
> flash metering is tops, and the spot/manual to
> aperature-priority auto exposure mode switch is impossible to
> beat.
>
> Then there comes Matrix Metering on the new fangled cameras.
> Ok, tricky lighting situations and my M*nolta A1 is dead on.
> Bright sunlight?  Dead-on.  Shadows?  Dead-on.  It seems to know
> when you are taking a picture in bright light and it will always
> prevent the meter from under-exposing the scene.
>
> Unless...
>
> Unless you have a stinking Polorizer or ND filter on the camera.
>  The reduction in light level FOOLS the matrix metering into
> thinking that you are NOT in bright sunlight.  It seems that the
> metering algorithm looks at the maximum EV and determines scene
> type from that.  The reduction in light from the polorizer fools
> the meter because the maximum EV is not the same as an
> unfiltered lens.
>
> You can't even exposure compensate because the matrix metering
> has determined that the scene type is something totally
> different than bright sunlight.  It goes and applies a different
> metering expectation to the scene.  Brilliant, but dumb.
>
> Same goes for sticking colored filters on the lens.  Completely
> screws up the WB and Matrix.  It only took me 5000 pictures with
> this camera to figure out what was going on and verify and test
> it.
>
> I love my OM-2S...
>
> AG-Schnozz
>
>
>
>
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