Why should the lenses be to blame? I can't understand why you would use spot metering for a portrait at all. At worst you should be able to meter off a grey card using a wider metering angle. At best, use incident metering.
-- Cheers, Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Roman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 09 May 2006 21:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Portraits > > My recent experience with *istDL shooting portraits and > lenses from EXIF spec. shows images are about 0.7EV > underexposed. Shooting in RAW it is easily corrected with > UFraw but I wonder if lenses are to be blamed. > Should I perhaps use center-weighted metering instead of Spot > for these large objects like portraits. Oh, and eyes are > always need to be corrected to expose full magic in them. > > > -- > home <http://roman.blakout.net/> > > > >
