I've been experiencing something I can't make much sense of recently regarding the automatic exposure calculation with my camera, at least I think it's that.
Most of my shooting as at airshows and car shows, for static displays my settings are usually:
In sunny weather:
ISO 100
Aperture priority (most the time this usually as open as possible for least DOF)
I always keep in mind that when moving into darker locations, one of these could bring a bottlneck (usually ISO/shutter) and I change it accordingly. However what I find is, that in certain outdoor sunny shots even with plenty of light, the camera will think the composition is bright enough (exposure meter at dead center) but you take the picture and it's clearly darker and not ideal. Sometime's this happens vice versa too, but usually it's darker. I have to then use exposure compensation to sort the next one out. This seems to be related to that particular composition/scene. but on a full day of shooting I will probably see this on about 5% of shots maybe.
This has been quite common in my experience for the past few months, pretty consistent.
I was at RIAT recently and started seeing this on a couple of shots also, and after about 200 shots I thought I'd try full AUTO without flash a go. This is automated everything except flash. I found the exposure calculation to be spot on in this mode, for the next 500 shots at least. It always calculated it perfectly. I then thought to myself why not just use this instead of faffing with A mode.
I'm probably going to get questioned that in those bad exposure shots, are you sure something wasn't bottlenecking the exposure, but I have consciously checked the exposure meter in the viewfinder and the camera think's the exposure is correct.
I was using my kit lens for the static shots 18-55
What is it I'm seeing here?
Most of my shooting as at airshows and car shows, for static displays my settings are usually:
In sunny weather:
ISO 100
Aperture priority (most the time this usually as open as possible for least DOF)
I always keep in mind that when moving into darker locations, one of these could bring a bottlneck (usually ISO/shutter) and I change it accordingly. However what I find is, that in certain outdoor sunny shots even with plenty of light, the camera will think the composition is bright enough (exposure meter at dead center) but you take the picture and it's clearly darker and not ideal. Sometime's this happens vice versa too, but usually it's darker. I have to then use exposure compensation to sort the next one out. This seems to be related to that particular composition/scene. but on a full day of shooting I will probably see this on about 5% of shots maybe.
This has been quite common in my experience for the past few months, pretty consistent.
I was at RIAT recently and started seeing this on a couple of shots also, and after about 200 shots I thought I'd try full AUTO without flash a go. This is automated everything except flash. I found the exposure calculation to be spot on in this mode, for the next 500 shots at least. It always calculated it perfectly. I then thought to myself why not just use this instead of faffing with A mode.
I'm probably going to get questioned that in those bad exposure shots, are you sure something wasn't bottlenecking the exposure, but I have consciously checked the exposure meter in the viewfinder and the camera think's the exposure is correct.
I was using my kit lens for the static shots 18-55
What is it I'm seeing here?
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