Serious underexposure problems and CF card recognition

Carlosnino

New member
Hi everyone,

I got a D200 back in 2007 and i'ts been working marvelously. Two days ago I tried to take some family shots but the camera would not respond. It underexposes real bad. I made some tests trying to shoot a bright window like this:
If I put the camera in auto mode, with ISO 100 and f3.5, the camera will take the shot at 4000 speed when focusing a bright area of the window. The shot was terribly underexposed (I know because I dome this test 100s of times. To get a correct exposure, I have to shoot in Manual mode and, with the same camera configuration, shoot at speed 100. It's that bad.
Another problem is that I bought a 16GB CF card and tha camera read and fomatted it perfectly allowing some 450 shots (shooting RAW uncompressed) but now, it only allows 34 shots in that card. I replaced with an 8GB card I have and the camera will only record 14 on it.
The camera has been treated correctly and has never been dropped.

Any ideas of what could be happening?
 

Carlosnino

New member
Thank you for your answer fotojack.
Just a few minutes ago I was moving around the menus and, by mistake I changed the language to Spanish and the switched back to english. And boom, the camera reads and recognizes the cards perfectly.
I updated the firmware just like it says at Nikon's webpage but the underexposure problem persists.

Carlos
 

Carlosnino

New member
Problem solved, I do not know how, but I had changed the exposition compensation through the external command buttons to -4.3 (I don't remember touching those buttons in my entire life)

Thank you anyway and have a great one! :)
 
Problem solved, I do not know how, but I had changed the exposition compensation through the external command buttons to -4.3 (I don't remember touching those buttons in my entire life)

Thank you anyway and have a great one! :)
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The same thing happened to me once. With me I just called it a "Senior moment".
 

fotojack

Senior Member
Hey, glad you got it figured out. At least now it's working properly for you. And yeah, sometimes those buttons get pressed mysteriously. :) Something to keep an eye on in the future.

By the way, Carlos...welcome to the forums. Could you finish filling in your profile? It helps us help you with any questions you might have. Thanks. :) Happy shooting.
 
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