Please help with Sony RX100 M3 camera

[oswald5eva]

Firstly, I am very much a serial automatic settings user, so I'm hopefully looking for a very simple way to deal with this particular issue.

This is a fantastic camera (Sony RX100 M3) and takes amazing pictures on automatic mode (imho) in every situation I have tried except for the following:
A night or dark picture, where there is a lighted object or part of the photo, say a lighted sign at night and you want the lighting to 'adjust' to the light part of the scene so that it is visible.

These never come out right on auto, but it is particularly frustrating because in the preview the picture will look awesome until you push the button down all the way and at the last second it 'brightens' the picture! So I know the camera CAN do this, it's just being stubborn on me haha
Is there a way to either:

• tell the camera in automatic mode that I want it to pay attention to the light part of the scene in this instance
• or to 'preset' one of the manual modes to whatever the 'right' settings for this type of condition would be so that I can just turn the dial to that mode whenever I'm in this situation and can then just push the button from there

I know I'll probably never get as great a picture with one of these methods (if they are even possible) as if I learned how to manually adjust the settings for every condition, but I'm okay with that, that's just how I roll This has been my only quibble with this amazing camera and I just thought I'd see if there was a solution to it

Thank you so much for any help or advice you have

 

[mom2rtk]

In my DSLR I would switch to spot metering or center weighted metering to compensate for all the dark space in the frame. When a camera sees a lot of dark in the frame, it usually will overcompensate by raising the exposure for the entire photo. You want it to meter a smaller portion of the frame. Not familiar with that camera, but I'm sure there must be a way to do that.

Another option on my DSLR would be to dial in some negative exposure compensation telling it to underexpose. Once again, not sure how to do that on your camera, but there must be a way.

 

[oswald5eva]

In my DSLR I would switch to spot metering or center weighted metering to compensate for all the dark space in the frame. When a camera sees a lot of dark in the frame, it usually will overcompensate by raising the exposure for the entire photo. You want it to meter a smaller portion of the frame. Not familiar with that camera, but I'm sure there must be a way to do that.

Another option on my DSLR would be to dial in some negative exposure compensation telling it to underexpose. Once again, not sure how to do that on your camera, but there must be a way.

Thank you for your ideas! I'll look for something like that in my manual