You are using "center" priority exposure. Probably AEL w/ Shutter is off (or auto), and Live View Display Set. is not on Exposure Effect otherwise you had recognize the difference of exposure while shooting them. I don't see any exposure compensation in both pics. I don't know which AF setting you are using, I hope AF-C with face recognize that work great on A1. (it have an influence on exposure that I'll explain later). The firmware version (in not updated) could help to find some known issues on the function). If you look at your photos you can see that the contrast between subject and background is really hight, so the exposure meter strategy is delicate. - In the firsrt the center (where the meter read exposure in "center" mode) is on the face of your man. Consequently your result is almost right with background overexposed. - In the second the center (where the meter read exposure) is on the light in background. So your result is exposed for the light in background and your subject is dark. What I suggest (but feel free to ignore my poor experience): - use Multi-pattern metering, it work better than other in 90% of situations - use Exposure Effect to see in live view the final result of your pics (it's one of best skills of mirrorless system) - use face recognize. I prefer to use it on assigned button (classic "AF-ON" rear button) to be able to choose if use it or not in different situations - [opzional] use AEL w/ Shutter -> on With those settings, when you are in a scene like the your with high contrast from subject and backgroun, when you enable face recognize (AF-ON in my case) the camera will expose for the face regardless for the background. If you don't use face recognize, your shoot sequence will be more similar also if at the center of the frame fall a hot point or a dark point. In this case you can easly use exposure compensation wheel to find your best regulation. The advantage of AEL w/ Shutter, is that (in AF-C) your exposure is locked from first to last pic of your sequence (that you can regulate with exposure comp.) untill you release the button. In hard situation like your. metering is so hard. Your settings and techniqe must be perfect
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