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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
Glad to see you back Shaun!!
That tower photo is a tough metering problem for any camera. The differences in light between the sky, the sunny side of the tower, and the shaded side of the tower are extreme. There is a lot of sky, so the matrix meter is giving it a lot of weight in its exposure calculation.
I wouldn't be messing with the ISO beyond finding the lowest number that will let me take a photo. High ISO numbers introduce all kinds of noise into the photo. ISO relates to the sensitivity of the light sensor, you need to be experimenting with the amount of light getting to the sensor. In manual mode, I would experiment with aperture and speed settings until I got the best compromise, starting with a small aperture and long time exposure.
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It's good to be back, thank you! though I've got a few more days of getting stuff back in order before things are normal again, if they ever were.
I guess it comes down to this. My LX3 was out of the box a great camera. Thought this one would be too, actually much better. Unfortunately, I'm not the kind of person to learn aperture and speed...it seems like baking. I don't bake well.
I'm going to post my experience on a Sony NEX forum and see what they say. Maybe it's supposed to take pics like these. My experience with other decent cameras says probably not though. We'll see.