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D70s- pictures very dark
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Hey all.
Ive recently bought the Nikon D70s and started playing around with it on automatic.
The pix Ive taken have come out very dark, is there something I am missing? do I need to by an attachable flash?
Please help, im off to Greece this Friday and want to take perfect shots.
xx
Hi Meegan
Welcome to the forum ;)
Can you tell us what settings you are using typically on your camera- even maybe post a couple of photos from various occasion when you’ve taken some photos… “maybe” we might be able to help you figure it out :)
Lorraine
excellent, thanx for your help.
im using AF -S mode, image quality is JPEG normal, image size is large, long exp NR is set to OFF, ISO 200, ISO auto is OFF.
I have already adjusted the images in iPhoto so will have to take more to post on this forum..
Im also using an 18-70mm lens.
Thanks.
Meegan, this is a “feature” of the D70 and indeed most Nikons. Digital cameras aren’t able to capture a huge range of brightness through to dark and they’re particularly bad at capturing bright objects. As such, Nikon have designed their cameras to underexpose slightly so as to retain detail in bright areas. A lot of people find this ok and just adjust their work flow to it or even get used to it. If you’re not happy, there are exposure compensation buttons on top of your camera close to the LCD (forgive me, I don’t have a D70 or manual to hand). These can be adjusted to fool the camera into thinking scenes are darker (or brighter) than they really are and expose the shots accordingly. On a lot of forums people suggest dialling in 2/3rds of a stop compensation. But be careful, if the scene is very bright, you can easily overexpose the images.
Feel free to email me if you’d rather have step by step instructions and I can type them up later this evening/tonight!
Thanx Ciaran.
Ive been playing around with my settings and it seems to have helped.
Are these exposure compensation buttons the P,S,A & M dials?
If you can give me the step by step instructions, I would greatly appreciate it, if its not a hassell.
Everyone is so helpful on these forums!!
meegan wrote:
Thanx Ciaran.
Ive been playing around with my settings and it seems to have helped.
Are these exposure compensation buttons the P,S,A & M dials?
If you can give me the step by step instructions, I would greatly appreciate it, if its not a hassell.
Everyone is so helpful on these forums!!
The P, S, A & M buttons are exposure mode.
S is Shutter priority mode – you select the shutter speed and the camera chooses the appopriate aperture for correct exposure
A is Aperture priority mode – you select the aperture and the camera chooses the appropriate shutter speed for correct exposure
P is Program mode – this is very similar to the fully automatic mode you’re shooting in now and you’ll need to switch to this (or A, S, or M) if you want to use exposure compensation
M is Manual mode – this is where you select both the aperture and shutter speed you want.Simplistically, exposure compensation fools the camera into thinking a scene is either brighter or darker than it really is. So if your shots are always turning out dark, you can fool the camera into thinking the scene is draker than it is, so it will “over expose” it more so than underexposing it.
The button on the top right of your camera, just behind the on/off switch (see diagram) is the exposure compensation button. If you press this in while twisting the main command dial, you will see numbers changing on your LCD. You need to change this to -0.7 – which is 2/3rds of a stop, positive compensation. Unfortunately this does not work if you are shooting using the “auto” mode. One word of warning though – if a scene is very bright and you are using exposure compensation, you do risk over exposing it as you are fooling the camera into thinking thinking that the scene is darker than it really is.
I’ve included two relevant pages from the D70 manual below.
Hope this helps
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