Nikon D200, AI Nikkor 400mm f/3.5 ED-IF (handholded if memory serves), iso 400, 1/2500 f/8, A mode, +2 compensation, center-weighted. Despite the +2 compensation, it came quite underexposed. It seems D200 tends to underexpose a lot more than usual when fitted with AI lenses, does it make any sense or am I missing something?
Patricio, it depends on the light available at the time, but mostly, the bird is side-lit. It seems to me that 1/2500 at f/8 with iso 400 is more of an exposure for a light bird under fairly sunny conditions, so not surprised it came out dark. My wild guess is 1/1200 would have been a better choice.
How did yo compensate to come up with that reading, and most important, where was the reading taken from?
Hi, Fab, thanks. I'll explain a bit. This birds like to hide in the ground in groups. I was shooting a very different subject, when all of a sudden a groups of about 20 started to fly around me. My camera was in A mode, C/W metering, and a whooping +2 compensation, and even with that compensation the picture came underexposed. Most probably since this birds took me by surprise, I came with a reading from the sky, but again, I would expect it to come out lighter than it came out given the +2 comp. I'm surprised as of how much compensation I have to dial in the D200 to get exposures on the right of the histogram qhen I use AI lenses (which, BTW, is most of the time) :-)
Nacunda Nighthawk
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