Hi, I finally got a mkIV after 5 years of my MkIII.
I’ll do a bit of a review at end of this post.
But first shoots with it , I’m very impressed. Much nicer files , not the smirry smudgey look of the mkIII.
And much less colour noise in shadows , possibly more luminance noise as iso goes up. But much better , and the resolution bump is decent.
Processing raw images in capture one , seems mor comparable to D800 or A7rii files, rather than 5d mkiiis.
Which is great.
One problem though is the meter seems to be giving me over exposure readings especially in evaluative mode.
- I shoot manual all the time , and am used to metering from different sections of a scene then working out the ‘correct’ exposure from my various readings of the scene.
It seems nearly 2 stops different from my mkIII meter..
Say I’m metering for dark areas in trees in shade or a dark road or stone building . - normally on my mkIII in evaluative I would set the exposure to 2 stops under .
Actually I’ve been using this technique for 20 years, and has worked well for me on various film and 5D series cameras.
If I do this , these dark areas are almost a stop over exposed. So I found I have to set exposure to 3-4 stops under the meter from dark areas.
Everything i meter for , and say it’s an average tone and constrast scene , it’ will be 1 stop over if go on the meters exposure.
I’ve tried center weighted and this seems similar to readings I was getting from my mkiii.
Partial seems very hot and miss .
Any thoughts ?
I’ll do a bit of a review at end of this post.
But first shoots with it , I’m very impressed. Much nicer files , not the smirry smudgey look of the mkIII.
And much less colour noise in shadows , possibly more luminance noise as iso goes up. But much better , and the resolution bump is decent.
Processing raw images in capture one , seems mor comparable to D800 or A7rii files, rather than 5d mkiiis.
Which is great.
One problem though is the meter seems to be giving me over exposure readings especially in evaluative mode.
- I shoot manual all the time , and am used to metering from different sections of a scene then working out the ‘correct’ exposure from my various readings of the scene.
It seems nearly 2 stops different from my mkIII meter..
Say I’m metering for dark areas in trees in shade or a dark road or stone building . - normally on my mkIII in evaluative I would set the exposure to 2 stops under .
Actually I’ve been using this technique for 20 years, and has worked well for me on various film and 5D series cameras.
If I do this , these dark areas are almost a stop over exposed. So I found I have to set exposure to 3-4 stops under the meter from dark areas.
Everything i meter for , and say it’s an average tone and constrast scene , it’ will be 1 stop over if go on the meters exposure.
I’ve tried center weighted and this seems similar to readings I was getting from my mkiii.
Partial seems very hot and miss .
Any thoughts ?