Went for a walk yesterday and took one of my Nikon D90 Cameras with me. I put my 50mm 1.8 AF D lens on it and set it up for ISO 200 with a shutter speed of 1/200 @ f/16. I did this to test out the Sunny 16 rule. I totally disregarded what my meter was saying and just went by feel When I hit a bit of shade I opened up a couple of stops. I took an initial look at the images and they look pretty decent. I'll post a few of them once I have some time to really look at them and do some processing to them.
For those of you who don't know what the Sunny 16 Rule is it states that your exposure on a Sunny day is 1/ISO @ f/16. So if your ISO is set to 200 your shutter speed will be 1/200 @ f/16. You can compensate for shade and cloudy weather by opening up a stop, for darker clouds or shade open up 2 stops. Give it a try sometime you'd be surprised at how well it works.
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