This should prove to be an interesting learning experience for me. I was chimping (hate that term) and it seemed that the images were a bit light (overexposed) at 00 EV correction. I kind of doubted that this was correct because as you can see, the scenes I was shooting were severly contrasty with dark shadow and bright light conflicting. I did not trust the camera meter and instead underexposed most of my images by setting the ev correction to -.07 to -.10 or greater. When I did this the LCD showed what appeared to be a nicely exposed image.
One problem is that I was chimping in daylight under the shade of a tree but still brightly lit ambient lighting which made it difficult.
I will go out tommorrow and test some more. One thing I learned is that this is no D1x. I was pretty comfortable with that camera and got good results without chimping. I need to build confidence in my instincts for setting camera controls with cameras ability. So many choices in settings compared to the D1x.
Just wanted to share my experience in hope that it may help some of you also new to this marvelous contraption. Tommorrow, I will re-examine the images I posted above to see if I can salvage them. These shots are in my opinion sub par. I don't blame the camera however. It is me that needs a few adjustments.
Hey Backdoctor can you tweek my instincts for me? :wink: