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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Markulous" data-source="post: 1280191" data-attributes="member: 21905">No offence taken in the slightest! |=)|Sunrise/sets I used to regularly go down to -3.0 to prevent burned highlights (on my 3 year old Sigma SD10!). With the rapidly changing light I can very easily use Exp Comp to adjust the exposure whereas I have to estimate if I shift to manual and you can't easily verify the change in light levels (camera just informs you you're beyond -2.0). The 1D gives you +/- 3.0 and Nikon appears to give +/- 5.0 across their dSLRs. I guess the answer is manual and an external light meter but that just seems so unecessary! Or, I guess an ND Grad to control the sunOne theory I have for the reduced Exp Comp is that Canon are aware that the cameras are not too good at recording detail in the shadows - the dynamic range seems less than my SD10 (I use a 350D)</blockquote>