Thanks for you help. First, let me clarify. I didn't mean "needle" literally. I just meant the way the bars indicate the exposure. Now, as far as I could determine from reading the manual repeatedly, there are three places that should have an exposure indicator. They are the "viewfinder" which is the most common way of using a camera...with eye to viewfinder. The second is called "Command Panel" in the manual. This is the small LCD display on the top of the camera just behind the shutter button. The third place you should see an exposure indicator is on what they call the "Tilt Monitor" after pressing the "Info" Button. All three should have an exposure indicator and all three should reflect the current exposure conditions. On my camera only the viewfinder exposure indicator works. While there is a bar graph like the one in the eyepiece exposure indicator in the other two exposure indicator locations, only the one in the viewfinder works. The other two don't do anything to indicate exposure. I appreciate you mentioning firmware. This is very possibly a firmware issue. My firmware is 1.15. You said yours was 1.11. Maybe the new crop of programming genius engineer introduced a new bug in the later version.
At any rate thanks again for your response. If you have any other thoughts on the matter I'll be happy to hear them. In the meantime I will try Google!

Nice shots. Very attractive lady captured in a way that makes your imagination work magic!

I have a very good understanding of the exposure indicator. I guess I expressed it poorly. I just wanted to convey the problem wasn't due to the exposure being so far wrong in either direction, the needle was not visible. The problem is not the monitor though. The monitor only brought the problem to my attention. With the monitor connected or not the problem remains. The exposure indicator works in the eyepiece but not the other two places it is displayed. Unfortunately, I am starting to believe you are correct. I will probably have to go to Nikon. I did the post because sometimes I have found answers faster through this forum that contacting Nikon.
Thank you for your response!

I bought a 5.5" "on camera" monitor to use on my D750. When you look through the eyepiece of the view finder you see a bar graph on the bottom of the screen. There is an indicator bar that moves left and right. The middle of the screen is zero. The bars to the left are negative and the bars to the right are positive. Generally, you are correctly exposed when the indicator bar is over the zero position in the middle. While getting familiar with the "on camera" monitor I noticed on the built in monitor there is no indicator bar moving left and right indicating exposure. There is a graph with zero in the middle , a + sign on the right and a - sign on the left, but no moving indicator bar. The control panel display (next to the shutter button) has the same problem. Anyone have any idea what's wrong...or what I am doing wrong?

The problem is not in manual mode. Any manual shots I took worked fine. The problem was only when "Auto" mode was used. I believe most of the responses I received basically say the lens and camera aren't communicating well. This has been my suspicion from the beginning. I can use flash compensation when using "Auto" and it works. I was hoping for a fix (such as a firmware download) instead of a work around. The reason being that when I let someone who doesn't know how to shoot manually I might forget to set the flash compensation. Even more likely is I would forget to take it off when I start shooting other than in auto. I wouldn't see the problem until I take a look at a few shots and that is often 15 to 20 shots later.

Appreciate the suggestion. Checked them both, no compensation set. Tested again, same result of over exposure.

Understood...but I don't have much time to wait for anything! Maybe when I retire...in a hundred years!

You can see it in his eyes...where the hell are the road runners!

Yesterday I did a service call in Tucson Arizona. I was working in a tack room that was part of a resort. Outside the tack room there were a multiple areas fenced in to keep waiting horses. I was sitting in my truck when I looked up and saw a bird, walking slowly at first, then very fast. Right behind it was what I thought at first was a dog. Nope! The bird was a Road Runner (yes, they are real birds) and what I thought was a dog on closer view turned out to be a coyote. My phone was in the tack room and my Nikon took too long to get out. I can't believe I missed the shot of a real life coyote chasing a real life road runner!

The ISO is being set by the camera When I shoot manually, I have no problem. The issue only came to light because when other family members shoot my camera so I can be in the picture (without a tripod), I set it to full auto. I am starting wonder if setting the camera to auto changes some other settings as well. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sir, you are correct that neither of the flashes specifications cover 14mm. In fact neither of the flashes have settings for anything lower than 24mm. I have played with other lenses down to 12mm and while the flash wasn't designed to cover the field of view it didn't do a bad job. Further, I would think if this were the problem then the pictures would be under exposed, at least at the edges.
In regard to the camera identifying the correct itself it is. Both in live view and recorded with the pictures the data correctly identifies the lens as being 14mm.
As to the possibility of the auto exposure algorithms falling short, that makes sense. Those algorithms I assume are in the firmware so I'm going to install the latest version as soon as I get a couple of questions about the process. Time will tell. Another poster suggested the ISO setting might be the culprit. That is also a possibility I will explore. In the meantime thank you for your suggestions. I assume the mystery will be sorted out eventually and every suggestions, like Edison's failed light bulbs, brings me one step closer to solving it!

Actually even though I have access to the EXIF data, I came up with the 4.2 Fstops by adding exposure compensation through the flash until I was capturing correctly exposed images. I believe you are correct in suspecting the firmware (whether reverse engineered or using licensed code to start). Since the exposure control works correctly shooting without flash AND the problem is identical using a Yongnuo flash or a Nikon flash. I think there is a firmware update needed but the website mentions a "Lens Station". I'm not sure if thats a piece of hardware or they mean the f-mount on my camera. I will try to get support to explain but I think I'm gonna be fighting language barriers. Anyway, thanks for chiming in!

Same issue at 4', 11' and 25'....It's not the distance or the amount of ambient light. Thanks for the response though.

To be honest, I was hoping this was a known issue. As an electrical engineer who understands the possible issues that could cause this I would agree except that the exposure is dead on when shooting without flash. This is an interesting problem to be sure. Like I said, 4 Fstop compensation is a workaround but it will drive me nuts if I can't figure out the root cause!

Thanks for the suggestion but there wasn't any. I sited a 4 Fstop over exposure because I needed to put 4 Fstop exposure compensation to get correctly exposed images.