d60 overexposure?

[rblissett]

This was kind of odd. I shot some landscape stuff at around 3 in the afternoon on a sunny day. My images on the review seemed a little bright but it was kind of hard to tell as it was particularily hard to see the screen properly due to glare. I know I should of checked the histogram... oh well no matter, I'm still new to this camera and just experimenting anyway.

So when I got home and loaded them into PS I was like wow, that's a little overexposed.

The one thing that I noticed was that I set my white balance manually to sunny. Because it was sunny. I should have experimented and set it to AWB but that one's for another day. The rest of my settings were controlled through the basic setting for landscape and my ISO was 100 so I don't think it was an aperture problem based on speed.

Has anyone else ran into this. I'll have to experiment around a little more but this did seem fairly strange.

Rob

[robertwgross]

Rob, when you were shooting, what mode was the camera in? Were there an icons flashing in the viewfinder or on the top display?

In some modes, the camera is forced to submit to the foolish settings that the user has chosen. It will flash icons for a seriously under- or over- exposed scene, to the best of its meter judgment. If I am in a hell of a hurry, I forget to look at those, so I waste a frame. Oh, well, it is not film.

---Bob Gross---

[Motorsports Photo]

Both my D30 and 10D are dreadful for exposure. Both cameras would take 2 nearly identical shots in the same light of the same subject and one would be OK and the other (Usually) too light. I never had those kinds of problems with my A2E.

-PS

[rblissett]

Thanks Bob, I'll have to take a closer look next time.

[barnold999]

keep in mind, if it is bright on the screen it will be WAY bright on the computer... the LCD is so bright... But, yeah, historgrams are nice :-)

Depending on how severe the ovexposure is you can fix it in PS (unless you have blown out highlights)