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<blockquote data-quote="Chris70" data-source="post: 134207" data-attributes="member: 13633">Hi, Sorry for the doubtless overly garbled explanation. The ISO is set to 100 throughout the day and as the sun sets I initially increase the shutter speed and, if needful, increase the ISO. (I'm doing a time-lapse and have to change the exposure in the interval between shots.)My own feeling&nbsp; is that your last point, &quot;It&nbsp; almost sounds like you're trying to use the Exposure Compensation meter in the viewfinder as a a light meter while in Manual mode&quot;, is exactly what I'm doing. For night shoots it is unreliable and as it gets darker it cannot handle such low light, hence the meter jumping wildly. In a perfect world I would shoot a few test shots and adjust exposure accordingly. Trust to my own eye. I can't do this for time-lapse where I have a short interval between each photo (usually c.5 seconds) to get the exposure correct. So, if I have a brief period to get a correct exposure in between shots and the meter in my viewfinder is unreliable, what can I do? I have a friend who suggested a light meter. Opinion seems divided on whether this is of any use for a landscape shoot.I hope the above help clarify my problem?Cheers,Chris</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris70, post: 134207, member: 13633"] Hi, Sorry for the doubtless overly garbled explanation. The ISO is set to 100 throughout the day and as the sun sets I initially increase the shutter speed and, if needful, increase the ISO. (I'm doing a time-lapse and have to change the exposure in the interval between shots.) My own feeling is that your last point, [I]"It almost sounds like you're trying to use the Exposure Compensation meter in the viewfinder as a a light meter while in Manual mode"[/I], is exactly what I'm doing. For night shoots it is unreliable and as it gets darker it cannot handle such low light, hence the meter jumping wildly. In a perfect world I would shoot a few test shots and adjust exposure accordingly. Trust to my own eye. I can't do this for time-lapse where I have a short interval between each photo (usually c.5 seconds) to get the exposure correct. So, if I have a brief period to get a correct exposure in between shots and the meter in my viewfinder is unreliable, what can I do? I have a friend who suggested a light meter. Opinion seems divided on whether this is of any use for a landscape shoot. I hope the above help clarify my problem? Cheers, Chris [/QUOTE]

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