Originally posted by TangentReq THanks for the thoughts guys. I have only just started photography as a hobby and I can see how the front wheel helps a lot. I also don't think that the size difference is that big, although I have yet to take the k10d on a hike so that could change.
I have a question about a picture i took today. I've been just pointing it all around trying to figure out how things react and such and I am not sure how to fix things like this.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2273/2535353786_35e774b497.jpg
How do I fix the harsh light from the window without making everything else too dark.
Also is it possible that a camera would constantly be making pictures dark. I doubt it but since I've never used a camera like this before just want to make sure its me lol.
Thanks.
Fixing the bright area would be easiest by using fill flash during the exposure. It would help even out the level of brightness between the darker room area and the bright window. It might not completely even it out, but it would be much closer.
As far as the pictures being too dark, if you're using a M mode, you can under-expose(intentionally or unintentionally). It could also be the metering mode, since you can choose between spot, center and evaluative, and these different modes can often meter fairly different exposures for the same scene. You might also check that AE compensation is dialed to 0.0 and not to a negative(-) number. This might seem pretty obvious to check, but I've set compensation before and forgotten to zero it out when I was done. Another possibility is the lens. I know it sounds weird but I have a lens that underexposes by about 1/2 to 2/3 stop, no matter what the metering mode is, on every camera body I've tried it on. To confirm it, I set the exposure manually for a scene using a lens that seemed to performed well, made an exposure, and then switched lenses to the suspect lens and made an exposure using the exact same manual settings. Nothing changed except the lens, but the second exposure was siginificantly darker when I reviewed it in the camera, and on my computer. Tried the same experiment with a different camera body(K100D) with the same result. After some experimentation, I figured out that over-exposing by 1/2 to 1 stop, resulted in a more pleasing exposure with this lens. And of course, it is possible that it's the camera. While my K10D has been great, it's a modern production line product, and no matter how good the QC is, every company makes a mistake now and then. I'm not saying whether it's the camera or not, since I can't take a look at it myself, and before I guessed that it was a camera malfunction, I would check out the settings and the lens. Usually, but not always, if the camera is exposing and making images that are ok other than being a little too dark, it's not a camera malfunction, per se, although the camera settings might need to be adjusted(AE comp, meter mode, etc.)