Doug Pardee

The following is more pedantry than anything. I think you've got the basic notions okay, but I don't know if your terminology was just unusual, or if you're looking at it from a perspective that ...

To add to what Jerry, said... If you're in M mode, you probably have the Preview Exp. In M Mode option turned off. The "no preview" option is typically used with flash photography, where you don't ...

Raw doesn't have a brightness. It's just sensor data. There are no standards for raw data. Each camera is free to produce whatever raw data it wants on the way to creating the in-camera JPEG. It's ...

It depends on what you, personally, like. Different people like different things... that's why there are choices. I'd recommend that you shoot some typical images in Raw or Raw+JPEG, then use ...

As I wrote in my original posting:

From my original posting:

Bill Claff is going to be the expert on all of that. All I could do is interpret (and possibly misinterpret) his charts. :-)

Neither is "wrong." Multi metering is necessarily REI while the other metering modes are SOS. The point of Multi metering is to assess the scene and attempt to give a pleasing exposure -- "18% ...

Yes. No, it's just a different numbering system. In a given situation, you'd simply use a higher-numbered ISO on the Fuji (assuming you're not using Multi photometry). Sony often uses much the same ...

Aargh… the ISO wars were reignited by Tony Northrup’s popular (but incorrect technically) video and a number of response videos, most of them made by people who don’t even understand the ISO ...

Personal opinion, obviously... Disney isn't a photographic destination. It's a place to have fun with your family. Trying to snag photos can be challenging with all of the people there. Wide-angles ...

This. Whenever an option mysteriously isn't available, first check your drive mode.

Yes, you can pretty much assume that any modern sensor used in a mass-production camera will have varying Raw data values depending on ISO. Some extreme ISO values, usually tagged with an L or H, ...

Technically correct, in that the term exposure only refers to the amount of light reaching the sensor. However, the OP's original statement clearly used the word exposure in its colloquial sense of ...

The issue is that smaller aircraft, especially regional jets, don't have any "overhead bin" storage. You can only bring the "under-the-seat" carry-on, and not even that if you're in a bulkhead ...

The ISO setting doesn't affect the exposure when using autoexposure. When you change the ISO setting, the autoexposure changes the computed exposure to match. The aperture doesn't affect the ...

Can you at least say if it's PDAF or contrast-detect? Or is that still up in the air?

That's correct. In ISO 12232, the SOS (Standard Output Sensitivity) standard is about accuracy: it aims to have an 18% gray card come out as 18% gray in the sRGB JPEG (provided the lighting is ...

I may be sorry for bringing it up, as the topic seems to be very controversial... but many of the people who believe in microcontrast claim that (generally speaking) the more elements, the less ...

Short answer: continue to ignore the counts. Aspherical elements are generally good, being included specifically to correct known spherical aberrations, but much depends on how well they're made. A ...