Discussion
I'm just wondering if i should make the change in January.
I've had my 300D for a year now for the business and with the Sigma 24-70EXDG they make a good combination. But the 300D's exposure is just killing me. Rarely do I get a shot where I can say that it was spot on.
I hate to say its the cameras fault as it harks back to "bad workman blames his tools". But nothing i've tried has really worked.
Generally, the camera is left in P mode. Let it do the hard work and set the exposure, but time after time the pictures are just plain underexposed. In some cases the camera was never going to get it right - and I'll take the blame for assuming the camera would get it right as the conditions required more manual supervision.
However, in a lot of the pictures they are just dark.
I'm going to try a graduated neutral density filter to see if the sky is making the camera over compensate.
The question is - has anyone else had problems with the 300D? or is it just me not setting up the camera right? The metering is plain old "average", which is why the sky could be affecting it. The 400D has a better exposure system I believe, so would be a logical upgrade.
I've had my 300D for a year now for the business and with the Sigma 24-70EXDG they make a good combination. But the 300D's exposure is just killing me. Rarely do I get a shot where I can say that it was spot on.
I hate to say its the cameras fault as it harks back to "bad workman blames his tools". But nothing i've tried has really worked.
Generally, the camera is left in P mode. Let it do the hard work and set the exposure, but time after time the pictures are just plain underexposed. In some cases the camera was never going to get it right - and I'll take the blame for assuming the camera would get it right as the conditions required more manual supervision.
However, in a lot of the pictures they are just dark.
I'm going to try a graduated neutral density filter to see if the sky is making the camera over compensate.
The question is - has anyone else had problems with the 300D? or is it just me not setting up the camera right? The metering is plain old "average", which is why the sky could be affecting it. The 400D has a better exposure system I believe, so would be a logical upgrade.
Dont know what options you have on the 300d for meetering, the 400d has average, matrixed & center weighted I think.
I've heard the 400d under exposes on occasion too though (as said by dpreview), & my 350d is more likely to over expose, so much so that I normaly shoot at -0.3ev.
But I dont think a new camera will help! (well the 350/400d is a better camera than the 300d) Meetering is just an aid, doesnt matter what mode your using you have to understand it and understand when and how it'll get things wrong, another mode wont get things right more often, just work differently.
If your shooting lots of landscapes with bright skys and darker ground then a ND grad filter is probably the way forward, that or multiple exposures, no digi camera made can cope with the dynamic range of bright sky and dark(er) landscape that well.
How about taking it out of 'P' mode into Av mode too?
I've heard the 400d under exposes on occasion too though (as said by dpreview), & my 350d is more likely to over expose, so much so that I normaly shoot at -0.3ev.
But I dont think a new camera will help! (well the 350/400d is a better camera than the 300d) Meetering is just an aid, doesnt matter what mode your using you have to understand it and understand when and how it'll get things wrong, another mode wont get things right more often, just work differently.
If your shooting lots of landscapes with bright skys and darker ground then a ND grad filter is probably the way forward, that or multiple exposures, no digi camera made can cope with the dynamic range of bright sky and dark(er) landscape that well.
How about taking it out of 'P' mode into Av mode too?
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