Can I rely on My K1000's Centre Weighted Metering?

[Andrew O'Neill]

 

[film4Me]

Interesting. I have the same meter in my Pentax KM. I've often walked up to the subject and taken a reading and mostly ignored the surrounds. This video explains the situation clearly for achieving extra shadow detail. In the past I've also taken two readings of a contrasty scene and averaged the readings, which I found works pretty well too.

Thanks.

 

[mshchem]

My first real 35mm camera was a Pentax SP 500. Eventually added a Pentax ES, screw mount cameras. I made great pictures with these cameras. Just matched up the needle, or with the ES set to auto. I had to be cool so I traded these in for Nikon F2S, this camera is more center weighted. I bet my color slide success rate dropped by 75%. I rarely use in camera meters unless it's something like a Nikon F5 with matrix metering on auto pilot. I'm better off guessing. I'm actually pretty good at guessing. I use an incident meter. Pretty boring approach