For those who have made the switch from film to digital, do you find yourself using fill flash more often for outdoor shots than when you used film?
When I use film I very seldom seem to need fill flash outdoors and I'm not sure it's because film has a wider latitude for exposure than digital presently has. With film I'm able to take shots in shaded areas, have the subject exposed properly and the background in sunlight, has good detail and not blown out. With digital, no fill flash, the camera underexposes the subjects in the shade, and background in sunlight is borderline being blownout (camera is attempting to meter a balance between the two I presume) . If I compensate the exposure to get the subject looking right, the background is severly blownout. Fill flash pretty much gets me back on track with a good balance of subject and background.
It also seems I'm having better luck with center-weighted or partial metering in situations such as this, rather than evaluative that looks at the whole picture.
