Understanding how a camera’s metering system works is important. Most meters are programmed to meter at the “18% grey” point for correct exposure. Even with Nikon’s fancy colour matrix metering, it still wanted to expose this scene to that point.
As I was drastically running out of light in this dimly lit kitchen at a friend’s cottage, I needed a faster shutter speed (see second shot). I also wanted black to be black, not grey, so I set the exposure compensation for “-2” (ie 2 stops under) which eliminated both problems.
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