Images There, But Nuclear!

[Xtrema]

Wife took D60 to kids field trip. Photographs generally OK. But, from time to time, and the last few shots especially, the images are just blown out. It looks like the nuclear bomb scene from Terminator! You can make out the kids in the picture, but there is so much light that the image is unusable. Adobe can't fix it using auto-correct.

Av f7.1 was the program setting she used, with Canon 28-135 IS set at ISO 1000. Sky overcast--no sun visible.

[Cadwell]

ISO 1000 is very high... why was it set to that? :confused: The noise must be significant on a D60 at that level.

[jimlp]

Wife took D60 to kids field trip. Photographs generally OK. But, from time to time, and the last few shots especially, the images are just blown out. It looks like the nuclear bomb scene from Terminator! You can make out the kids in the picture, but there is so much light that the image is unusable. Adobe can't fix it using auto-correct.

Av f7.1 was the program setting she used, with Canon 28-135 IS set at ISO 1000. Sky overcast--no sun visible.

I did not think that there was an ISO 1000 setting on the 10D, are you refering to the shutter speed?

[pierrot]

Haha, she just forgets to roll the film back into the cartridge before opening the camera.
As simple as that! :mrgreen:

[Cadwell]

I did not think that there was an ISO 1000 setting on the 10D, are you refering to the shutter speed?

He said the camera was a D60. The D60 has an ISO 1000 setting.

[Xtrema]

Have used ISO 1000 for dozens of images lately with no issues. Mostly shot kids sports. This 'roll' of images was almost like the good old days when the X-ray machine would fog some of your images but not others.

[Cadwell]

Have used ISO 1000 for dozens of images lately with no issues. Mostly shot kids sports. This 'roll' of images was almost like the good old days when the X-ray machine would fog some of your images but not others.

I suspect that at ISO 1000 in AV mode at f/7.1 the camera couldn't set a fast enough shutter speed to prevent over exposure. What was the shutter speed recorded in your EXIF data?

[Xtrema]

I wondered about that. Where do I find the EXIF data? Sorry for the newbie question.

[Curtis N]

Where do I find the EXIF data?

Some image editing programs have buttons or menu options to display the exif data, but with Windows XP, right click on the filename, select "properties", then the "summary" tab at the top, then hit the "advanced>>" button.

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Did you use a fill in flash ?
If so was the flash set for highspeed flash ?

[MTalley]

My guess would be that even in cloudy weather, ISO 1000 may have been bumping the max shutter speed. I forgot and left my DRebel at ISO 800 the other day and was taking pictures outside, albeit in sunny weather, of some horses in a field.

Shooting in "P" mode, I kept noticing that occasionally the shutter speed was 1/4000 and flashing (meaning that it was going to be overexposed). It was one of those blonde moments where the overexposure warning didn't click with me until later when I was looking at the EXIF data and saw the 800 speed.