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D90 Meter reading question.
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcel" data-source="post: 35880" data-attributes="member: 3903"><p>Well Rick, I'll try to explain what might be pertinent to answer your question.</p><p> The D90's meter wants to make everything 18% grey. This is equivalent to the grey card old photographers used to use to meter. When you take a picture with the D90 and there is a lot of dark that is darker then the grey card, the meter wants to overexpose to make everything grey, so the skies or faces or whatever will be overexposed. Now if you want to take picture of a face for example and the person is standing in front of a lake and she is backlight, the meter will want to make the lake and the light darker that it is. Then you would have to overexpose to get the details in the person's face that you'd want.</p><p></p><p>Try to find a grey card and take it with you. Just by looking at the card and comparing it to what you'll be photographing will get you to understand this principle. Better even, use the card to take a camera meter reading and it should be 95% right.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your D90, I took mine out this week and it's still a very nice camera to work with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcel, post: 35880, member: 3903"] Well Rick, I'll try to explain what might be pertinent to answer your question. The D90's meter wants to make everything 18% grey. This is equivalent to the grey card old photographers used to use to meter. When you take a picture with the D90 and there is a lot of dark that is darker then the grey card, the meter wants to overexpose to make everything grey, so the skies or faces or whatever will be overexposed. Now if you want to take picture of a face for example and the person is standing in front of a lake and she is backlight, the meter will want to make the lake and the light darker that it is. Then you would have to overexpose to get the details in the person's face that you'd want. Try to find a grey card and take it with you. Just by looking at the card and comparing it to what you'll be photographing will get you to understand this principle. Better even, use the card to take a camera meter reading and it should be 95% right. Hope this helps. Enjoy your D90, I took mine out this week and it's still a very nice camera to work with. [/QUOTE]
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