Re: Minority Report on Active D
Active-D on low does work fairly well in certain situations but not some others and although I tried to nail it down, so that I knew when it had to be turned off, at times it was unpredictable. That's why I tend to keep it off and simply use exposure compensation along with a invention that came long before Nikon started preprograming cameras for evaluating exposure values.....namely my brain ( although some would say mine in particular could use some improvement...LOL).
Maybe it could be argued, but Nikon's evaluative process for their variety of AF-C modes for predictive autofocusing is to be commended, but I've never been too impressed with their evaluative metering (exposure) system as a whole.
Dave (D&A)
Tim, I'm still laughing from that last line you wrote cause that's exactly what I was thinking many months ago when shooting with a D7000 in bright lighting where expanse of the sky was a prominent part of the image...and that particular body would severely overexpose.Maybe a wider variety of testing conditions would show it as being more clever but so far, my camera's tendency to overexpose is precisely in situations where it should be metering to protect the (non-specular) highlights.
I use exposure comp ALL THE TIME to avoid this happening. I'd like to know what 60,000 scenes they programmed into the matrix brain, because my guess is that none of them had sky in them...
Active-D on low does work fairly well in certain situations but not some others and although I tried to nail it down, so that I knew when it had to be turned off, at times it was unpredictable. That's why I tend to keep it off and simply use exposure compensation along with a invention that came long before Nikon started preprograming cameras for evaluating exposure values.....namely my brain ( although some would say mine in particular could use some improvement...LOL).
Maybe it could be argued, but Nikon's evaluative process for their variety of AF-C modes for predictive autofocusing is to be commended, but I've never been too impressed with their evaluative metering (exposure) system as a whole.
Dave (D&A)