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<blockquote data-quote="NIKONIAN_DREAMWEAVER" data-source="post: 455720" data-attributes="member: 36003">I recently took a series of pic's (with the D7100) of a small-engine I was working on.&nbsp; I used the built-in flash, matrix metering, aperture priority, auto-iso.&nbsp; And I noticed later, that I had a good amount of noise and I checked the metadata and my ISO was chosen automatically by the camera as 6500; which was way higher than it needed to be to get a perfect exposure, in my case.&nbsp; I was in the garage, which was relatively low - medium in lighting.&nbsp; So the camera metered the light the way it thought it should, but didn't meter as if I was using the flash at close-range, which is what I was doing...Anyway, I found that if I turned off 'auto-iso' and set it on just 'ISO' and then set my ISO number manually (using the ISO button), to something reasonable, I was able to set the camera to 125 ISO and it gave me perfect exposure, with the flash and a nice low ISO.I do quite a bit of this kind of thing with the 'built-in' flash, so I'll have to remember this for next time...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NIKONIAN_DREAMWEAVER, post: 455720, member: 36003"] I recently took a series of pic's (with the D7100) of a small-engine I was working on. I used the built-in flash, matrix metering, aperture priority, auto-iso. And I noticed later, that I had a good amount of noise and I checked the metadata and my ISO was chosen automatically by the camera as 6500; which was way higher than it needed to be to get a perfect exposure, in my case. I was in the garage, which was relatively low - medium in lighting. So the camera metered the light the way it thought it should, but didn't meter as if I was using the flash at close-range, which is what I was doing... Anyway, I found that if I turned off 'auto-iso' and set it on just 'ISO' and then set my ISO number manually (using the ISO button), to something reasonable, I was able to set the camera to 125 ISO and it gave me perfect exposure, with the flash and a nice low ISO. I do quite a bit of this kind of thing with the 'built-in' flash, so I'll have to remember this for next time... [/QUOTE]

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