K-S2, its one second display, and the 18-135

flektogon wrote:

flektogon wrote:

Lawrence,

I checked again your pictures, and based on what I saw in their (i) info, I believe that what the camera (or you) selected in a bright but cloudy day (what I assume it was), something like f:9, 1/800, ISO 800 should yield properly exposed pictures. And they should appear as you posted them requiring any NO additional exposure correction. And they should appear, either when immediately previewed, or later reviewed (by pressing the review button), perfect on the LCD as well.

Now, you claim that the immediate preview showed dark pictures, but the review was O.K. And what about the pictures posted? Did you brighten them?

if you are not sure whether your new camera is O.K., just aim this new K-S2 and any of your older camera (which you are sure that it works properly, like K-3 or K-S1) to the same object and make comparison of their exposure parameters. For such a test I would really recommend to use any automatic exposure mode (P, Tv, Av, etc.) and maybe JPEGs out of camera. If the K-S2 sets roughly the same exposure parameters (or slightly different parameters but leading to the same exposure), then everything is in order. Compare how they look in the review/immediate preview by the cameras and then download the pictures to your computer. Again, they should look (almost) identical.

Just typo (see above).

Peter,

I did lighten some (many?) of them by changing the exposure slightly in Lightroom.

There was never a problem with Live View or what you get by pressing the arrow button.

It was raining today so we didn't go any place but tomorrow it is supposed to be cloudy with some sun. If we go tomorrow, I'll pick a wide open area, use the 16-85 mm lens and stick with the Manual Setting.  I know you recommended some other settings and I may move to some of them if I'm still dark in the Manual Setting, but I'm hopeful.

I watched about half of the Tony Northrup review of the K-S2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_BC8iGvB8Q  I did follow one of his recommendations by activating the histogram in Live View.  Interestingly he said the the pros don't use the manual setting much.  They like some of the other settings, the AV and Tav were mentioned.  He wasn't as sanguine about the P setting as you are.  But I think I do the same thing as Tav in my Manual mode by setting the ISO to auto.

Lawrence