Anaxagore
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Hi all, the 6008 and Hy6 have that rare possibility of light metering when using the waist-level finder. To do that, there is some compensation mechanism to "remove" the light coming from the viewfinder from that coming from the lens.
I have noticed quite a few times that when the sun is high in the sky, the camera goes to widest aperture and high times, although it should not. I remember having posted that question maybe 6 months to a year ago and the suggestion was to shine a light through the viewfinder to check for that possibility. I have not done that, but yesterday, when the camera showed parameters that would correspond to a very dark room, I shut down the viewfinder, keeping the camera in the same position. Then the exposure parameters went back to what they should be.
Is it possible that this compensation mechanism overcompensates? Or maybe I installed my viewfinder screen upside down and more light goes than what should go through the screen (that is the only optical reason I could come up with)?
I have noticed quite a few times that when the sun is high in the sky, the camera goes to widest aperture and high times, although it should not. I remember having posted that question maybe 6 months to a year ago and the suggestion was to shine a light through the viewfinder to check for that possibility. I have not done that, but yesterday, when the camera showed parameters that would correspond to a very dark room, I shut down the viewfinder, keeping the camera in the same position. Then the exposure parameters went back to what they should be.
Is it possible that this compensation mechanism overcompensates? Or maybe I installed my viewfinder screen upside down and more light goes than what should go through the screen (that is the only optical reason I could come up with)?