Thank you for letting me join your forum. I hope you can help. I got no relevant hits searching for "3.2," "exposure," or "default."
I have had my L30 for about 9 months. It was set with the factory default settings. I use it for work, taking pictures of the insides and outsides of houses.
About 3 months in, I noticed that the automated exposure seemed to be defaulting to f3.2 all the time. I never really looked at the exposure settings before that, but I didn't think it was doing that.
The issue is that indoors, it defaults to f3.2 then adjusts the shutter speed, and a huge percentage of pictures are at 1/30 sec at f3.2, with no flash, which is kind of borderline for shooting clearly without shake. I have observed that it will not flash til the shutter speed goes down to 1/25. Outdoors, it wants to shoot at 1/1000 at f3.2 or even 1/1200 at f3.2. Many pictures come out not as crisp as they should with a Nikon, even an entry level one.
I brought it to a Nikon contract repair station and they basically said there is nothing wrong with it. The repair station did all the factory reset stuff, downloaded the most recent firmware, etc.
I spoke to Nikon a couple of times, and when I directly asked if shooting at f3.2 under all conditions was standard or normal behavior for this model, they would not give me a straight answer.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal behavior for this model (and if so, why on earth?) My old L11 does not show the exposure, but it usually flashes inside, when the L30 will not.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I love the wide angle on the lens but the exposure issue drives me nuts.
I have had my L30 for about 9 months. It was set with the factory default settings. I use it for work, taking pictures of the insides and outsides of houses.
About 3 months in, I noticed that the automated exposure seemed to be defaulting to f3.2 all the time. I never really looked at the exposure settings before that, but I didn't think it was doing that.
The issue is that indoors, it defaults to f3.2 then adjusts the shutter speed, and a huge percentage of pictures are at 1/30 sec at f3.2, with no flash, which is kind of borderline for shooting clearly without shake. I have observed that it will not flash til the shutter speed goes down to 1/25. Outdoors, it wants to shoot at 1/1000 at f3.2 or even 1/1200 at f3.2. Many pictures come out not as crisp as they should with a Nikon, even an entry level one.
I brought it to a Nikon contract repair station and they basically said there is nothing wrong with it. The repair station did all the factory reset stuff, downloaded the most recent firmware, etc.
I spoke to Nikon a couple of times, and when I directly asked if shooting at f3.2 under all conditions was standard or normal behavior for this model, they would not give me a straight answer.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is this normal behavior for this model (and if so, why on earth?) My old L11 does not show the exposure, but it usually flashes inside, when the L30 will not.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give. I love the wide angle on the lens but the exposure issue drives me nuts.