Any D50 owners there?

[Mr Noble]

I have just spent 4 days in stockholm and did not take the D70 as my boss has just bought a D50 (kit 18-55) and asked if I could give him a briefing and a few lessons on using it.

He cleverly did not bring the manual and I found the camera set to full frame meteringwhen I got my hands on it.

Now I tried everything and every button for about an hour to try and find a way to change this to center weighted or partial as it was over exposing most shots on the full frame metering.

I could not find the way of doing it and just want to know out of interest more than anything else.


On a comparison note, I found it felt very similay physically and shot the same but I did really miss not having the roller knobs front and back. (thumb and finger) There is just the one for the thumb and I found it harder to quickly adjust the settings when a shot was over/under exposed etc.


All in all it is a cracking camera for the money but I think for the added versitility and functionability, the 70(s) is worth the extra dosh.


Greg


ps. We did however get some superb shots that I will hopefully be able to show you soon.

[beano500]

Mr Noble said:

... I did really miss not having the roller knobs front and back. (thumb and finger) There is just the one for the thumb and I found it harder to quickly adjust the settings when a shot was over/under exposed etc.

[thick mode]So how do you control aperture then? [/thick mode] [Whatdyameanyoudidn'tnoticeanydifference!!!]

[rustybin]

The metering is adjusted off the pencil iconed menu.

Aperture control is on the thumb wheel in Aperture priority mode. In manual you hold down +/- button and twiddle the thumb wheel otherwise the wheel controls shutter speed.

[Mr Noble]

I meant that there is only the one (thumb) wheel and not 2.

I searched through the menu's for ages and could not find the metering adjustment one. There are far fewer menus on the D50, much simpler.

I found the AF-S and AF-C menu but not the metering one.

Unfortunatly don't have the camera here anymore to check, I just hope my boss works it all out.

Thanks.

Greg

[simpo two]

Mr Noble said:

Now I tried everything and every button for about an hour to try and find a way to change this to center weighted or partial as it was over exposing most shots on the full frame metering.

The empirical way is just to dial in -EV until it's correct!

If you can find the EV control, that is