Olympus camera overexposes
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From: DaveC on 21 Jan 2010 04:46 Olympus FE-20 p&s digicam. Holding the camera up and using the display as the viewfinder, the exposure looks normal. Pressing the shutter button results in an overexposed photo. It doesn't matter if the flash is on or off; the resulting photo shown on the LCD display is always overexposed. Changing the exposure setting does have a little effect on the exposure. I'm a bit confused; if the "before the shot" view in the display is accurate, why would the exposed photo be different? What might be the cause? Thanks, Dave
From: William Sommerwerck on 21 Jan 2010 06:55 > Olympus FE-20 p&s digicam. > Holding the camera up and using the display as the viewfinder, > the exposure looks normal. Pressing the shutter button results > in an overexposed photo. > It doesn't matter if the flash is on or off; the resulting photo > shown on the LCD display is always overexposed. > Changing the exposure setting does have a little effect on the > exposure. > I'm a bit confused; if the "before the shot" view in the display > is accurate, why would the exposed photo be different? > What might be the cause? Bad design. This is a common problem with digital cameras. "What you see" on the LCD is not always "what you get". On my Olympus E-500, the LCD image almost always looks underexposed. Yet the final image is correct. I assume the camera has some sort of exposure compensation. If setting it to underexpose all your shots doesn't fix the problem, the camera needs servicing. Or you need a new camera.
From: hr(bob) hofmann on 21 Jan 2010 11:56 On Jan 21, 3:46 am, DaveC <inva...(a)invalid.net> wrote: > Olympus FE-20 p&s digicam. > > Holding the camera up and using the display as the viewfinder, the exposure > looks normal. Pressing the shutter button results in an overexposed photo.. > > It doesn't matter if the flash is on or off; the resulting photo shown on the > LCD display is always overexposed. > > Changing the exposure setting does have a little effect on the exposure. > > I'm a bit confused; if the "before the shot" view in the display is accurate, > why would the exposed photo be different? > > What might be the cause? > > Thanks, > Dave Have you gone thru the service manual? Have you replaced a battery recently? Has the camera always been this way since new?? Sommerwerck is right.
From: DaveC on 21 Jan 2010 13:47 Olympus FE-20 - - - > Are the pictures pale-looking even when you upload them to a computer? > > Has the camera previously produced acceptable pictures? > > Is the battery OK? > > Could be a fault in the exposure meter or in the 'firmware'. Wouldn't these faults be evident in the "viewfinder" mode (before taking the exposure)? When I aim the camera at light and dark subjects the camera compensates by "irising" up and down to give what looks to be a properly-exposed "preview" display. Only when the image is captured is it overexposed. Images downloaded and viewed on the computer are overexposed, identical to when viewed on the camera's display. This is a new-to-me camera (used) so I don't know the history. Battery icon is green (fully charged). It doesn't matter whether flash is on or off. Ideas?
From: William Sommerwerck on 21 Jan 2010 14:56
> Wouldn't these faults be evident in the "viewfinder" mode (before > taking the exposure)? When I aim the camera at light and dark > subjects the camera compensates by "irising" up and down to > give what looks to be a properly-exposed "preview" display. > Only when the image is captured is it overexposed. > Images downloaded and viewed on the computer are overexposed, > identical to when viewed on the camera's display. This isn't what I remember you saying. Regardless... If the picture is consistently misexposed, then the exposure-compensation control (assuming the camera has one) should fix the problem. If it doesn't, then the camera needs repair or replacement. As I said, this discrepancy is not uncommon. |