Unexplained overexposed image

[ColourBlind]

No and I do wish there was the facility to have a multi segment or just a plain average meter as you never quite know what matrix is thinking.

 

[Petruska]

After using one I will never even worry about the camera metering system.

At a wedding shoot, I go to the alter, push the light meter button, adjust my speed and aperture to the readings, perfect exposure to the pont where maybe a very slight adjustment if needed in post. Go outside to shoot more photos, same thing the light meter works great in the sun, under shade, heavy back lighting, no need to keep testing and looking as the LCD as with the in camera metering.

I bought my mint Sekonic on Ebay for $100.

Bob P.

 

[Bill Janes]

Thanks for feedback

I can live with the shutter speed being slower however if you look at the ISO setting you will also find that the meter pushed it from 2500 to 4500. Isn't this pretty extreme? The overall image is almost identical.

if you shoot in raw. It merely decreases highlight headroom. The reason is that read noise is higher with the D700 and the D3 at low ISO, but it bottoms out at around ISO 800. Above ISO 800 you should give as much exposure as possible, keeping shutter speed and f/stop considerations in mind, and then increase exposure as necessary in the raw converter.

With the newer D7000 you can use base ISO and do all exposure control in the raw converter. This is how it is done on the Hasselblad digital back.

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Bill Janes