has anyone experienced trouble with theirs? i have waited a while, leaned all about the different metering modes, and still feel confined to manual mode and stopping the photos brighter from what my meter says. i have no where near enough money for an external lightmeter, either. the photos are always too dark when shooting outdoors, or any sports, especially swimming. each session, i try a couple of P shots, it doesn't work out, and i switch to M.
It has a couple of modes and th eone with the circle with the dot in the middle seems to work best.
When using M mode what method do you use to set the exposure?
In all creative modes except M you can adjust the exposure vie the exposure compensation - turn the wheel on the back of the camera to the line and on the top LCD on the bottom right is a bar graph - if the pointer is in the middle then you are at the default. moving it left (-) reduces the exposure and moving it right (+) increases exposure. It's easy to accidently change this setting while shooting - that is why you can move the power switch to ON and not the line - so then the wheel won't adjsut it accidently.
ýes, i'm familiar with the modes and the meter, but i have tried all of the different modes in many different conditions, and they are al still a little bit dark. i don't know...
for my 30D, the pictures are mostly to be underexpose, especially for indoor shoot. So I always set the camera to +1/3 or +2/3 exposure compensation. for outdoor, sometimes set to 0 exposure compensation, sometimes still need +1/3 even under bright sun, because there are shadows involve in the picture.
Anyone of you have a real lightmeter? Compare it to the camera's opinion.
Secondly, got any sample shots? Is it your monitors? You're NOT using the LCD to determine how it looks i hope (maybe the histogram but even that's unreliable at times)
Do you know what a proper exposure is, or are you preferring something brighter/darker than 'normal'?
My Rebel's RAW images were consistenly under exposed, but ONLY the RAW files.
backlit or highly reflective or very white/black subjects can throw the meter off.
I don't mean to sound demeaning, but based on having used 5 different canon cameras myself with only the rebel's RAW being consistently off, I doubt it's your camera - and i have learned to never assume anything, so yes I may mention something stupidly simple as I have found that is often the problem.
