just bought a rebel xt

[kewldewd30]

Hey there,

I just got into photography last week...went out and bought the digital rebel xt...gotta say it's a blast..

however

Just today I went out, and shot over 300pics -- mostly on "p" mode. 99% of them were overexposed. What gives? I thought this mode autoadjusted everything.

Any insight would be cool.

M

[crn3371]

If you could post a couple examples it would help. What type of scenes? Do they just look overexposed on your monitor? What is the histogram showing you? The more info you can give, the more specific help you can get.

[jj1987]

I bet the exposure compensation was accidently set high.

[IamRoger]

Congrats and welcome to the DSLR world, you'll never use film again.
My guess as well with exposure compensation

[steved110]

There is a menu setting to restore the camera to default settings - check this out - the manual will give more details. I don't have an XT so I'm not sure how easy it is to accidentally change exposure comp, but it's fairly easy on the 20D - if the quick control dial is active - and yes, I know the XT doesn't have that!

[Andy30D]

Well done, the 350D/Rebel XT is an excellent camrea, I have had many good photographs from it.

Set on P mode it generally does a good job of exposures.:cool:

Reset your camera settings as has been suggested, also make sure you were on the right metering mode as this can throw up odd results.

Also, I mean this with all due respect, how can you go out and shoot over 300 images and have most of them over exposed, you do know you can check the LCD on the back?? I would recommend reading up on the 'Histogram' and make sure you review the images after a few shots (or every shot if you doing a static scene). The beauty of digital SLRS is that you can check the exposure after every shot and make sure you get the best one.:lol:

Good luck with the camera, it is a great pice of kit.

[braduardo]

Also, if you are shooting RAW while you're in P mode, when you open the files for some reason photoshop will auto adjust them and make them really bright. It's easy enough to fix though.

Good choice on the camera. I got the 300D last year and i love it, but would have liked to have gotten that one.

[kewldewd30]

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

Regarding previewing -- in the preview everything looked great. All was good...no, I didn't analyze the histogram because at this point I didn't think I needed to.

I was shooting Large (not RAW).

I thought that maybe I had accidently set something, so today I went out and just took some shots around the neigbourhood. The lighting/time of day was roughly the same. I set the camera on "P" and just started shooting...I didn't touch anything

Same problem. Everything is completely out --- wway overexposed. I've attached one for reference. Someone asked me to post the histogram info...how do you do this? Can I export that data somehow?

The histogram is basically telling me that there are parts overexposed..hmm...kinda already know that though....

--this is a pic of a wading pool..that white part, that's supposed to be blue. ISO 400 / 1/250 10

Regards,

M

[kewldewd30]

I just tried restoring the default settings as someone had mentioned...I thhhink it may have worked. I took some more pics and they seem more or less exposed properly.

I'll be doing some more testing later.

Anyway, thanks again..this is a great forum....and finding out a wicked community

Later

M

[Andy30D]

Yeah that image looks odd.

If it keeps doing it it may be a problem with the metering mode and you would have to get canon to have a look.

Good luck, I know how anyoing it is when you camera is not working how you expect.

[Jon]

Take a look at your EXIF info (another big advantage of digital over film) and see if any exposure compensation was used. It's easy to dial in a stop or two inadvertently.