Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks to me like the perfect shot of the perfect critter! My cameras tend to have metering patterns like center weighted vs. matrix vs. spot (woof!) I'd keep playing around with them till the shot looks exposed right but what about setting your override to +1 or 2? Till it looks good at the back of your camera? There are times I've done exactly that with my Nikons which sometimes seem at odds with their built in or add on flashes. But its an extreme situation where I need a flash. Like too dark for me to even see. Another odd thing to try is one of those diffuser things for your flash. That might make everything work. Not what it was designed for. But would end up a solution for that problem anyway. On the B&H site or catalog I've been seeing they have a choice of a dozen different brands and price points from 20 to 120 dollars. Its possible your flash is bouncing off your pinky and going back into the lens and the diffuser might make that not happen. Or it might make it worse. Or it might make it stay the same. But it would look real cool! -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: "Peter A. Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:27:52 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] IMG: Favorite Game > > Not a masterpiece, but all I had time for this week. Miss Tilly wanted > attention and would not let me read my email, so I figured I ought to get > something out of the deal. > > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/6297055951/in/photostream> > Panasonic G1 and 20/1.7. > > Technical question: This shot was exposed adequately. But most of the > pictures I took of our little ball game were underexposed, some by more > than 2 stops. The scene contrast wasn't that great. I've seen this before. > The 20/1.7 has a tendency to underexpose in low tungsten light, and I've > read numerous reports of it happening with several Panny and Olympus micro > 4/3 models. Does anybody know how to set the camera so this doesn't happen > (short of full manual)? I think I once read that evaluative metering > didn't work in low light with the 20/1.7, but I was using center-weighted > here. > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information