X20: severe underexposure of Landscape Photos shot in "Multi Metering" mode

brudy said:

brudy wrote:

brudy said:

il_alexk wrote:

Try the "average metering" instead, much more consistent. My X100 does has this mode, I assume X20 to have it as well.

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I agree with this, at least in regard to the X100. Now that I think about it, I pretty my use either average or spot across all my cameras. Here in southern california there can often be too much contrast because of the harsh light. In the case of photo 19 from the OP, I agree that it could give a lot of cameras fits.

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Yes, also for my X20, the "average metering mode" was somehow better (or shall I write "less poor"?) than the "Multi Metering Mode". But it was nevertheless strongly underexposing the landscape Photos having few contrast. Much poorer metering than the Matrix Metering of my Nikon D5000 and Lumix LX5. Too poor for me.

I should however disclose, that it is only a couple of fotos that i shot with my X20 in "Average Metering Mode"; therefore I do not claim that (in a evironment with few contrast) my landscape photos shot in "Average Metering mode" are "typical" for the X20. But I felt intuitively (perhaps wrongly), that the X20 "Average Metering mode" was not the right solution for me.

CraigArnold said:

CraigArnold wrote:

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Then you dial in some EC as necessary and shoot the rest of the session, unless of course the light changes a lot.

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This is what I do not want to be forced to do. All my olther digital cameras did not force me to do that, and I do not understand why the X20 shall force me to do that.

Instead I want to be able to rely most of the time on the Matrix Metering of the camera.

Gaze said:

Gaze wrote:

Robert, I don't especially like landscape photos with a lot of white skies...

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Hello Gaze,

Yes, like yourself, I too do not like especially such landscapes. But when I left in Zürich the shop of the Photo Merchant with my new X20 to take my first X20 Landscape Test-Photos, I could not choose the wheather.

Also after my return home (close to Basle), for a couple of days, we were not lucky with the wheather.

Robert Eckerlin said:

Robert Eckerlin wrote:

Robert Eckerlin said:

CraigArnold wrote:

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Then you dial in some EC as necessary and shoot the rest of the session, unless of course the light changes a lot.

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This is what I do not want to be forced to do. All my olther digital cameras did not force me to do that, and I do not understand why the X20 shall force me to do that.

Instead I want to be able to rely most of the time on the Matrix Metering of the camera.

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I should have added: Of course, after shooting a Photo I take a look at it to verify whether it is reasonably exposed. With my previous cameras (and especially with my D5000) most of my landscape photos are well exposed in Matrix Metering mode.... and I do not need to adapt the metering and then shoot again. Unfortunately, this is not the same with the X20 as it currently is.

Hopefully, this will get fixed.