I Have a issue ?

Hi, First of all, sorry if my english is bad, im from Dominican Republicand yesterdar a cousin bring me a D7100 that i tell him to buy for me on ebay, i took the camera out to take a few test pictures, when i copy the images to the computer i notice that in some pictures the darker/shadows areas look like if got "Painted" in black and i have to process on photoshop or camera raw to bring the details of this dark area, im worried because the camera has no warranty but im coming from canon and not sure if this is normal on nikon... please help

Looking at the shot of the dog, it appears as if you used matrix metering for that shot. Next time try it with either center or spot metering so it weighs the black heavily.

Welcome,it just looks like simple exposure error on your part,it may be the Canon metering works different to the Nikon,you just need to understand your new camera and all will be great.

Doesnt matter what metering do i use always is the same results



Sorry for the quality of this picture i save it in low quality to be able to upload faster, but here the problem looks better, the darker areas are totally black with no details

If its secondhand you could have an exposure compensation dialed in from the previous owner,you could do a reset,not sure but if you look in the instruction book its a two second job.

Thank you for the quick reply.
The camera is new imported model, i already do the reset to default settings with the two green dots buttom and all its the same

The shot is simply underexposed by about one stop. This is probably due to the fact that in both photos posted here, the subject is black and the background is white, or nearly white. The camera's meter wants to bring everything to middle grey because that's what meters do; they expose for middle grey, all the time, every time, no matter what.

A little adjustment to the exposure value helps this last shot quite a bit:
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Thanks Horoscope, i say in the fisrt post, if i go to photoshop or some software and light up the shadows or black the image looks better, but in some time even if i shoot a "Good" Exposed picture ill get this dark areas. im just trying to be clear if is a camera error or nikon make the things like this because in canon i never see this

Welcome!

You may need to adjust your Picture Control - page 105 in the D7100 User's Manual.

This was posted in another thread -http://nikonites.com/d5500/32144-why-do-i-have-tidy-up-pics.html?highlight=tidy

Go into your Menus and highlight the "Shooting" menu (the camera icon)

Drop down to "Picture Controls" and click right one time.

From here, highlight "Standard" and then click right one time.

From this settings menu, increase the "Sharpness" setting to "7".

Drop down and increase the "Saturation" setting +1 notch on the slider.

Press "OK" to exit the menus and you're done.

Look at the front fender shadow, its hard or painted look, is this normal on nikon ?

You have been very lucky if its never happened with Canon,the errors you are showing are due to you not understanding exposure and metering,nothing to do with camera make.

mikew said:

You have been very lucky if its never happened with Canon,the errors you are showing are due to you not understanding exposure and metering,nothing to do with camera make.

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Agreed.

This is not a Canon-vs-Nikon thing, this is a basic-understanding-of-exposure-as-it-applies-to-digital-photography thing.
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Rvtec said:

Look at the front fender shadow, its hard or painted look, is this normal on nikon ?
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What mode are you shooting in? You have to understand the camera does not see what you see and that at times you have to adjust the settings.

Sorry im not trying to bring a canon-nikon debate, im just saying that whith my other camera i didnt see that hard/darker shadows, thats what i create this thread because i want to know if this is normal.

J-see i already test in RAW and JPEG and its the same thing, when i see the picture in the camera screen doesnt look like this, it look good.

Rvtec said:

Sorry im not trying to bring a canon-nikon debate, im just saying that whith my other camera i didnt see that hard/darker shadows, thats what i create this thread because i want to know if this is normal.

J-see i already test in RAW and JPEG and its the same thing, when i see the picture in the camera screen doesnt look like this, it look good.

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You're shooting a black car in a rather light environment; if you don't compensate the exposure, you'll get stuck with that dark car. Just increase exposure compensation.

I don't know why you never had that problem with Canon. Maybe their limited DR had some advantage after all.

With any camera if you photograph a dark object against the light (dog and car) background or like the fan on a paler background with out making allowances the exposure will be wrong,come on you have billed yourself as semi pro you must understand what we are saying.

J-see said:

You're shooting a black car in a rather light environment; if you don't compensate the exposure, you'll get stuck with that dark car. Just increase exposure compensation.

I don't know why you never had that problem with Canon. Maybe their limited DR had some advantage after all.

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That came to my mind yesterday when i start to see the problem, maybe the DR on this camera is what makes the difference. sooo you guys see this normal?

Yes its normal

Rvtec said:

Sorry im not trying to bring a canon-nikon debate, im just saying that whith my other camera i didnt see that hard/darker shadows, thats what i create this thread because i want to know if this is normal.

J-see i already test in RAW and JPEG and its the same thing, when i see the picture in the camera screen doesnt look like this, it look good.

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I'm wondering about your monitor. You say it looks good on the camera screen. You also say some areas look painted black. I am not seeing that. The first dog picture, I see detail. The fan, I see detail, but its a little dark. They are very sensitive to my viewing angle. If I tip my screen slightly, I lose detail in the black. But if you are seeing it ok on your camera screen, I have to wonder about your monitor. The pictures don't look as bad as you describe, unless I tip my screen to a bad angle. So check your monitor.