Larry Cohen
May 11th, 2011, 07:58 PM
Hi,
I have an XF300 - Sometimes when I'm shooting outside - say of horses running around - sometimes they'll run towards the sun. Or the background will change as they trot around and I'll get a LOT more sky in the background. Of course, the dark horse with the additional backlighting becomes too dark.
Sooo, I would think I would assign a button so I can quickly push an assigned button, and the camera will go into the "backlight" mode. But as I play with it, it just looks to me as though it "overexposes" the scene by about 1/2 stop. Is that what the camera is doing? Is it basically just "overexposing" the scene by about 1/2 stop? I would've 'thought' the meter mode changes and "looks" for strong backlighting and then compensates . . . but that doesn't seem to be what's happening. Unless I'm wrong?
To me as I move the camera around looking closely as I toggle backlighting ON and OFF - it just looks like the entire image picks of about 1/2 stop.
Anyone have any observations on this?
Thanks,
Larry
I have an XF300 - Sometimes when I'm shooting outside - say of horses running around - sometimes they'll run towards the sun. Or the background will change as they trot around and I'll get a LOT more sky in the background. Of course, the dark horse with the additional backlighting becomes too dark.
Sooo, I would think I would assign a button so I can quickly push an assigned button, and the camera will go into the "backlight" mode. But as I play with it, it just looks to me as though it "overexposes" the scene by about 1/2 stop. Is that what the camera is doing? Is it basically just "overexposing" the scene by about 1/2 stop? I would've 'thought' the meter mode changes and "looks" for strong backlighting and then compensates . . . but that doesn't seem to be what's happening. Unless I'm wrong?
To me as I move the camera around looking closely as I toggle backlighting ON and OFF - it just looks like the entire image picks of about 1/2 stop.
Anyone have any observations on this?
Thanks,
Larry