[birsay]

As promised, here are two sets of comparisons of D80/Fuji S9500 pics for comparison of their relative exposure. I mentioned in my original post over in the "Say Hello" forum that I found the shadow areas of the D80 images somewhat darker than I had been used to with the Fuji...based on these images, what does the forum think?

I know that the quality of the D80's images far exceeds the Fuji, but in the first pair, the Fuji has exposed the shadow of the track at bottom left and the trees at the right fairly well, while the D80 has exposed both a tad on the dark side....on the other hand, the Fuji's sky at the horizon is almost blown, the D80's isn't. I assume therefore that the D80 is taking into account the highlights and ensuring they don't blow, while the Fuji is doing the opposite, blowing the highlights to get the shadows more correctly exposed...is this a correct assumption? Certainly the respective histograms suggest this.

Apologies that these are not scientific comparisons, but they're the best I've got. I think the Fuji's WB was set to Cloudy, the D80 to Auto, and they were both taken with Program AE. I'll post some other 'dark' D80 shots tomorrow - grateful for your comments on those too.

Regards,

Birsay