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D3100 Exposure Meter Flashing - need advice please!
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<blockquote data-quote="Robert Mitchell" data-source="post: 101774" data-attributes="member: 11282"><p>Hi Gary,</p><p></p><p>Using a flash doesn't change the camera's metering of ambient light. It's still telling you that the image, if exposed solely by ambient light, would be underexposed. By using the flash, the camera and flash are communicating to let the flash know how much light to output to give you a correct exposure. The built-in meter in the camera can only meter ambient light. The flash is calculated but not displayed in your viewfinder.</p><p></p><p>What you're seeing is correct and normal.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Regarding flash exposure.... since you can't meter or see the exposure before you take a shot, you do have to fire off the shot, view the image and/or histogram and then use flash exposure compensation (FEC) to adjust for your desired creative exposure.</p><p></p><p>If you find yourself shooting in similar lighting scenarios then experience over time will let you intuitively adjust FEC and then only make small adjustments as need be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robert Mitchell, post: 101774, member: 11282"] Hi Gary, Using a flash doesn't change the camera's metering of ambient light. It's still telling you that the image, if exposed solely by ambient light, would be underexposed. By using the flash, the camera and flash are communicating to let the flash know how much light to output to give you a correct exposure. The built-in meter in the camera can only meter ambient light. The flash is calculated but not displayed in your viewfinder. What you're seeing is correct and normal. EDIT: Regarding flash exposure.... since you can't meter or see the exposure before you take a shot, you do have to fire off the shot, view the image and/or histogram and then use flash exposure compensation (FEC) to adjust for your desired creative exposure. If you find yourself shooting in similar lighting scenarios then experience over time will let you intuitively adjust FEC and then only make small adjustments as need be. [/QUOTE]
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