I kept the 18.5mm f1.8 lens on the camera for the rest of my tour along the River Main. Some of you may know that I tend to do the same route whenever I test a new lens or system and tend to take the same type of images. This is because I know what the images should look like when a good lens is used. These have been cropped into the squre format that I like so much these days (I'm still waiting for the first company to bring out a square sensor in a small format camera). I looked across the Main at this heat generating plant and noticed that the sky was gray but the smoke coming out of the stack was although gray, it was a different shade of gray. I wanted to see how the camera would deal with these different shades of gray.

Not bad at all considering the small sensor. I noticed that dialing in -.3 to -.5 EV exposure compensation really did something for the images. My permanent setting is now -0.3EV. It does tend to blow out the highlights if your not careful.