Peter Klein
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Folks: I have noticed several times that in low tungsten light, my 20/1.7 and G1 significantly underexposes the picture. I'm not talking about high contrast scenes where a bright area or light source fools the meter. I'm talking about fairly low contrast scenes getting underexposed by about two full stops.
For example, the first picture below is close to correctly exposed. No light sources in the frame, no huge contrast differences. But I shot about 20 pictures in the sequence, and all but three of them were grossly underexposed, like the second example. The correct exposure was about 1/20 at f/1.7 (ISO 800), but the camera was mostly exposing at 1/60-1/100.
I've read about this issue numerous times online. Someone once told me not to use evaulative metering with low light, so I was using center-weighted aperture priority with the lens wide open. Does anyone know how to make the camera behave in these conditions (short of just giving up on the internal metering and going full manual)?
For example, the first picture below is close to correctly exposed. No light sources in the frame, no huge contrast differences. But I shot about 20 pictures in the sequence, and all but three of them were grossly underexposed, like the second example. The correct exposure was about 1/20 at f/1.7 (ISO 800), but the camera was mostly exposing at 1/60-1/100.
I've read about this issue numerous times online. Someone once told me not to use evaulative metering with low light, so I was using center-weighted aperture priority with the lens wide open. Does anyone know how to make the camera behave in these conditions (short of just giving up on the internal metering and going full manual)?
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