Yep, the laws of physics are racist now. I’m pretty sure that African slaves didn’t sit around the plantation musing about “racist roads” or “micro aggressions.” Nor did black Americans, while drinking from “colored” water fountains, think about hidden “systemic racism” or how public officials were using “racist dog whistles” to surreptitiously refer to them.
The fact that the current generation is obsessed with these silly made-up issues is proof positive that real racism, at least of the white versus minority variety, is exceedingly rare in today’s America. You don’t have to fake something that is abundant to prove that it exists. Yet all we see these days are completely imaginary problems, like racist cameras and racist roads, or outright hoaxes (too numerous to list).
A book I got with the camera warned that auto-exposure often resulted in too dark of exposure for black people and you had to turn the exposure compensation dial to 1/3 or 2/3.
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Not necessarily. Depends on a lot of factors, such as metering method used, lighting conditions, how big the subject is in the frame.
If you’re shooting with the sun behind someone, even white people will be underexposed using auto exposure. You have to spot meter the subject’s skin and take your reading from that.
If you’re shooting a black person that’s front lit and their face fills the frame, you actually have to underexpose, not over expose. The camera’s meter tries to make everything mid tone gray, meaning that the camera would overexpose them.