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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 3:31:39 GMT
I took two photos of the home my grandparents lived in back in the 50's and 60's. The first photo was slightly overexposed. The second photo was greatly underexposed. There were no changes to the camera settings, the sun did not suddenly go behind dark clouds. The lighting looked the same to me for both photos. I am wondering in the back of my mind if there is a problem with my camera. I have seen this before a little bit. I did buy the extended warranty, but hate to send it in, not knowing how long I would be without it in this Covid time, especially if there is nothing bad found.   |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 3:32:54 GMT
A thought that occurred to me was if you might have had your camera set up for taking an HDR image from the last time you used it. That has happened to me. |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 3:33:48 GMT
Charles it is possible since you are using spot metering, and program mode - as the exif data shows. The camera may have spot metered off of something white, so it underexposed the image to make the white look medium gray. |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 3:34:31 GMT
I doubt there is anything wrong with the camera; like already said, it is probably something different in the metering between shots. |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 3:35:22 GMT
fotofrank mentioned spot metering. For sure that can throw correct metering way off when the scene has lights and darks. A slight movement of the spot metering point from a dark zone to a light zone can have a huge effect on exposure. |
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 17, 2020 4:02:01 GMT
Why it would happen I don't know but I've had similar weird things happen with my camera and I can usually trace it back to the camera settings I'm using having got changed by mistake. |
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 17, 2020 4:25:10 GMT
A thought that occurred to me was if you might have had your camera set up for taking an HDR image from the last time you used it. That has happened to me. Helen, Thank you but personally I do not like HDR so I never use it. Oh there have been many times I have left my camera in a wrong mode and did not change it! |
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 17, 2020 4:27:33 GMT
Charles it is possible since you are using spot metering, and program mode - as the exif data shows. The camera may have spot metered off of something white, so it underexposed the image to make the white look medium gray. I would be willing to bet IF I was betting man that you are correct!! What would be a better metering mode to use different from spot metering? |
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 17, 2020 4:31:35 GMT
Buckskin, Pontiac1940 and TonyW
I am thinking I need to change my metering mode as I mentioned to fotofrank. This problem is happening more than I like!
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Post by fotofrank on Nov 17, 2020 6:11:59 GMT
Charles try using Evaluative metering
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 17, 2020 6:42:55 GMT
Frank,
Thank you... it took me a few minutes but I finally figured out how to change the metering mode!
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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 21, 2020 3:53:54 GMT
Of course all situations are different and often advice is not always easily followed in every instance; however, I will say this, if something is still and not going to run off, take several pictures from each perspective; and, at least three shots for each change in the camera settings.
Then, when you get everything on the computer, you can study the effect of various settings and also have a lot of candidates to choose from.
Of course, something that is already in the motions of leaving the scene and shots taken through gaps in the fence-row from a moving vehicle don't leave much room for experimenting.
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 21, 2020 3:58:25 GMT
I have not had a need in the last several days to use my camera so I have not taken any pictures as of yet, but I am pretty confident the problem was me having the camera on spot metering mode.
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Post by xairbusdriver on Nov 24, 2020 15:04:42 GMT
As long as we're betting... I'm betting that you are old enough to have used a film camera! Back when we didn't "waste" film by taking 'test' shots!  On the other hand, with a Brownie, you just pressed the button! No exposure, focus, stabilization controls! And what is Depth of Field?! |
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Post by Inspeqtor on Nov 24, 2020 15:14:40 GMT
As long as we're betting... I'm betting that you are old enough to have used a film camera! Back when we didn't "waste" film by taking 'test' shots! On the other hand, with a Brownie, you just pressed the button! No exposure, focus, stabilization controls! And what is Depth of Field?! Hahaha! Yep you are correct. I turned the big 70 this year. I had a few 35mm cameras back in the day. Wish I still had them all! What the heck is digital?? Digits are simply numbers, correct? |
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On the other hand, with a Brownie, you just pressed the button! No exposure, focus, stabilization controls! And what is Depth of Field?!