Another one for the 10D 'Masters'

I found out the hard way that a high temperature is making the pictures look too dark on the small screen on the back of the camera. At the RSA Rally in France 2 weeks ago, the skies turned almost dark blue. Thought I had a camera malfunction (it was on my digital eos-1N) and delated most of them on the spot. Later at home, it turned out that all the shots were good, and the ones I took to replace the dark ones were much too licht. Didn’t check my histograms however. Should have done that in stead of relying on my small screen. BW Roger

That shouldn’t work out though – you *should* use the palm and adjust by 1 stop for the correct EV. Don’t tell me Canon have altered the rules of photography AGAIN?

Anyways, I can’t read histograms. I don’t understand them.

I had a shot with an exposure that I checked and rechecked about 5 times – a CWGC wargrave in France. On the screen, it was whited out totally. Even zoomed right in I could make out nothing. On the PC it was spot on. Other times, when it’s too dark, it’s spot on. And yet others, when it looks ok, it is – though the next time those are way out. ****ing things. I have grey cards on order again (lost my last one in Normandy) which I used to use only with my 6×9 and tranny film.

Now check this out – this is the camera set at 125/5.6, 550ex on ETTL, and it looks great on the screen, and great on my PC. (It tasted even greater, washed down with a chilled Sauvignon! haha). So why the hell can’t I rely on it at other times? And outside is the worst. At Legends, taking the meter reading the same way I have for years, (off the runway / grass, depending on which was the closest in tone to an 18% grey) and setting manually, everything was massively washed out – but i start drastically underexposing and bingo! And I was shooting transparencies previously, so it isn’t down to print film / paper latitude.

That’s it. I’m gonna run it against my other meters and find out what the hell is going on.

And while I think of it Damien, can you let me know which parameters YOU prefer, so that I can set them later this month (!)

At least yours is working!!:mad:

BW Roger

I concur with Damien.

Am really pissed off with the screen – can’t judge exposure with it at all. And what a bitch for getting the exposure right in contrasty light – far more hassle than film. I can’t trust the meter, and the screen gets right on my ****.

Do you mean white balance or RGB? My WB is on 5200, while I shoot in Adobe RGB. At the moment I shoot nothing as my 10D boke down after 360 or so shots, and it is already 2 weeks with Canon for repair. It realy isn’t that inportant as i work in RAW only, so I can chanche everything later. Don’t know if this is what you ment. BW Roger