Hi,
I've been a happy Pentax user from past 11 months. I bought a Pentax K-500 last July-2014.
Things have been quite smooth and I'm quite pleased with the image quality, performance it offers.
The K-500 helped me to establish myself in line to become a professional.
Nowadays I'm largely using a SMC 50mm f2 manual lens for most of my assignments.
Yesterday I switched back to kit lens DAL 18-55mm, but the camera is consistently under exposing the images. Despite using the proper exposure in manual mode. (Even in auto mode with EV compensation of +5 in bright daylight)
Key pointer is, the screen appears dark, even in live view in bright daylight.
When I switched back to manual lens and used in Av mode, where camera meters for me, the metering works flawlessly. Even in manual mode, green button meters just fine.
But in kit lens, the photos are just under exposed despite every effort.
I cleaned the contacts and lens, everything seems good.
As this is my first DSLR, seeing it malfunction is disheartening. Even more the Pentax service network is non existent here in India.
Currently i've switched back to manual lens as i've a pre wedding shoot tomorrow.
Any inputs, suggestions are a welcome.
Pentaxians in India please provide details of service centers in Banglore.
Thank you,
Regards.
Edit: The problem being, the aperture is closed down to f22 despite choosing f3. 5 in camera. Thus resulting in dark images.
any help is appreciated.
Last edited by HHHkumar; 06-20-2015 at 10:06 AM.
Reason: problem found.