The other day I was out and shooting great fall photos. Everything looked fine in the viewfinder. After a while I wanted to check my photos so I reviewed them on the LCD screen. I was appalled to find that they were all horribly underexposed. I was shooting in the Auto Pic mode. What the hell is going on here? I will attach one of the photos.
I have fooled around with the camera a little bit since. When I turn the camera on and view through the LCD images are very underexposed. Looking at that image on the LCD I see on the bottom it is flashing in red 0.5" F4.0 ISO800. I have found that if I turn mode dial to something like TV or AV at some point it seems to go back to normal exposure (and shoots a normal photo) in all modes. Second photo is what I got after I did this.
Pretty odd.
I will say that a couple years ago I had a different type of problem.
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In that case I was tutored through the process of opening up the camera and cleaning contacts. It worked. This problem seems quite different but still involves the mode dial.
Anyway. Any ideas? I am very much a novice. The last cleaning I did with the contacts was way beyond my skill level, but I did it.
Oh yeah, is there a way (software?) that I can undo those photos/files that are underexposed?
Last edited by agrolingua; 10-10-2020 at 05:13 PM.