Does anyone else under expose a lot?

Sounds to me like you need a firmware update so correct this. The same thing happened with the 10D from canon. 3stops seems a lil extreme but also if your metering mode is say spot it wont care whats happening to the sky. Its only interested in the single point in the middle of the screen. Make sure your on a mode that uses alot of the screen to meter.

Hope that makes sense and helps
 
barratt1988 said:
Sounds to me like you need a firmware update so correct this. The same thing happened with the 10D from canon. 3stops seems a lil extreme but also if your metering mode is say spot it wont care whats happening to the sky. Its only interested in the single point in the middle of the screen. Make sure your on a mode that uses alot of the screen to meter.

Hope that makes sense and helps
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The OP has just posted that it was a sensor fault with the body. Sorted now.
 
I get the occasional under exposed shot on my 5D3 but I'm sure that's from me having it on the wrong metering mode for the shot. Most of the time when I had my 60D I had it in evaluative metering and it was pretty accurate. As it was my backup body I never really changed the settings that much and it gave me some great shots.

I've just swapped my 60D for a 7D and I'm going to take a bit more time with settings as I'll probably use it more often than I did the 60D. Most of the time the 60D was set on centre focus spot and only used for slower moving shots, but the 7D will get used for sports, wildlife and aircraft shots so will probably be on spot metering most of the time.
 
Rob 80386 said:
depends where the light is

if its directly in front of the camera, fill flash is used to light the subject which would otherwise be underexposed

:)
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Flat frontal lighting gives flat results...QED
 
I know your problem with camera is now sorted
But just wanted to say its a tricky one to get right a pale coloured butterfly on a dark background
What I do for Pale butterflies like this is to bracket the exposure taking a few ranging from 1 stop underexposed to zero (center)
Also I would try shots with and without flash as natural light shots are often nicer than flash which sometimes looks harsh :)
 
Will do, thanks :-) I should have time to try next week - this one is a bit busy!
 
cameras are not infallible and there is,n,t a right or wrong exposure the readings are just there to get you close , then its over to you
to fine tune the exposure to how you want it .
 
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