coolorado
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Hello everyone I'm happy to be here and hopefully I can grow as a photographer with you all! I just got a great Nikon f4s and it is SWEET. But, a few things are confusing me and I hope you don't mind helping me out. Sorry if I sound like a noob. (These are questions after I studied the manual)
I'm having trouble getting a correct exposure in my room (well lit). I'm on Manual mode, and in the LCD light meter I have it on 1/60 (because I want to at least keep it at 1/60 to avoid blur) and my f stop is wide open at 3.3 on this 24-50mm AF nikkor lens. I am still off the correct exposure by about 1 2/3 EV stops. Now, I can get it to be centered by using the Exposure compensation knob and turning it to, you guessed it, -1 2/3. Ideally I don't want to ever use exposure compensation, I want to keep it at zero and just adjust the shutter speed/aperture. What are the negative effects of using exposure compensation to get the correct exposure reading? Also, does my meter need to be calibrated if i can't get a good exposure reading in a well lit room without using the compensation? I would like to note that i am on matrix metering.
Here's another question.
In PH setting it shows the exposure settings as 160 and f/3.5
In M setting I put it on 60 and f/5.6 for it to show a correct exposure in the same scene, with exposure compensation of course.
Now why would that be? Why would a correct exposure in manual mode be two pretty different settings than a correct exposure in a high speed auto setting?
Thanks everyone for reading this! film isn't dead!
I'm having trouble getting a correct exposure in my room (well lit). I'm on Manual mode, and in the LCD light meter I have it on 1/60 (because I want to at least keep it at 1/60 to avoid blur) and my f stop is wide open at 3.3 on this 24-50mm AF nikkor lens. I am still off the correct exposure by about 1 2/3 EV stops. Now, I can get it to be centered by using the Exposure compensation knob and turning it to, you guessed it, -1 2/3. Ideally I don't want to ever use exposure compensation, I want to keep it at zero and just adjust the shutter speed/aperture. What are the negative effects of using exposure compensation to get the correct exposure reading? Also, does my meter need to be calibrated if i can't get a good exposure reading in a well lit room without using the compensation? I would like to note that i am on matrix metering.
Here's another question.
In PH setting it shows the exposure settings as 160 and f/3.5
In M setting I put it on 60 and f/5.6 for it to show a correct exposure in the same scene, with exposure compensation of course.
Now why would that be? Why would a correct exposure in manual mode be two pretty different settings than a correct exposure in a high speed auto setting?
Thanks everyone for reading this! film isn't dead!