Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 379787" data-attributes="member: 15302">I agree, avoid using Auto-ISO and flash. My problem was that I didn't know how it would behave.&nbsp; It won't happen again.&nbsp; I even tried to manually adjust the ISO to 400 with the button controls, but did not go into the menu to turn off Auto-ISO.&nbsp; The top screen showed me making the adjustment, though it also said &quot;Auto-ISO.&quot;&nbsp; This was in Aperture Priority mode.The flash was an external Mecablitz 52 speedlight with fresh batteries.&nbsp; The background was white walls, which would have suggested possible underexposure, but produced overexposure instead.&nbsp; As you say, ISO 400 would have been plenty, yet the camera defaulted to 12,800 with the Auto-ISO.Here's another funny thing from the evening: when I got the camera out, they really didn't want to spend any time setting up a shot, posing, making sure I got it, etc.&nbsp; But later in the night I started showing pics of them from 12 years ago, and they were so happy about those... asking me to email them, etc. Yet they saw no current value in making sure we had a good record of last night's party.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blade Canyon, post: 379787, member: 15302"] I agree, avoid using Auto-ISO and flash. My problem was that I didn't know how it would behave. It won't happen again. I even tried to manually adjust the ISO to 400 with the button controls, but did not go into the menu to turn off Auto-ISO. The top screen showed me making the adjustment, though it also said "Auto-ISO." This was in Aperture Priority mode. The flash was an external Mecablitz 52 speedlight with fresh batteries. The background was white walls, which would have suggested possible underexposure, but produced overexposure instead. As you say, ISO 400 would have been plenty, yet the camera defaulted to 12,800 with the Auto-ISO. Here's another funny thing from the evening: when I got the camera out, they really didn't want to spend any time setting up a shot, posing, making sure I got it, etc. But later in the night I started showing pics of them from 12 years ago, and they were so happy about those... asking me to email them, etc. Yet they saw no current value in making sure we had a good record of last night's party. [/QUOTE]

Verification