Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

Nikon D7100 with 18-200 lens Noticed during a trip to the mountains a lot of my photos where way too bright. My wife has the same camera & lens that I have. And our cameras are setup identical & her pictures where a lot better than mind. We where shooting in aperture priority. Got home & did test side by side & notice her camera is metering darker than mind. Do I need to send in for repair or make some kinda ajustment?

jethro779 Loc: Tucson, AZ

For starters, do you both have the exposure compensation set the same? Do you have the white balance set the same? It sounds to me like the exposure compensation is set differently on each camera.

Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

Everything is identical. No exposure set at all. I went into setting & turned my brightness down in Stardard & Vivid to -1 & helped my camera a little

The Watcher

Maybe your wife is, just a better photographer? :mrgreen:
By the way, welcome to the forum.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Check your metering , is it spot, center weighted, etc.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Check your ISO settings also.

Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

Both cameras are on matrix. Her camera is metering darker than mind side by side test

Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

ISO also the same set on 400 each

Quixdraw Loc: x

jlgad -- If your camera is still under warrantee, and you can bear to part with it, you might consider sending it back to Nikon. If it is out of warrantee, try setting your exposure comp to get a match with your wife's results.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Have you tried switching lenses, and comparing results?

Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

Yes no difference

Jlgad Loc: Tennessee

We both have the same firmware updated both last week before mountain trip.

martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida

Way to many variables to start with. Your already changing setting in the custom setting menu hoping to match your wife's camera. At the least you have to use the 2 green buttons on the nikons to reset to factory settings. Next you would have to use a Single focus point and focus on the same thing, other wise depending on the cameras settings the camera will chose what's important for focus and for metering and the list goes on and on.. So let's say your camera is Shooting a little hotter/brighter than your wife's, then what?? Almost anyone that shots with a Nikon camera to start with knows it's a little on the hot side. They also know when using Matrix metering even shooting the same scene will result in different exposures.. I personally use spot metering and normally set camera to -.3 exposure for my base. The Most important thing you can learn from this is you have found a limitation in your camera.. You can't compare to your wife's camera or anyone else. Compare the photo to the scene you took that day at that moment. If you find it shooting hotter than you think it should then adjust exposure compensation. Have you tried other metering methods??? Learn your camera, learn it's limitations and then learn how to shoot it to get the results you want. That's the Real Trick to learning photography. Expecting to point and shoot, does not a photographer make. All it makes is more money of the camera makers. If this camera would just work right, or if I had her camera, or his. If Only.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

It is always easier to give advice as to where to send a piece of equipment for repair or calibration if we know approximately where the subject is. "In Hiding" does not help us help you. I urge anyone in hiding who wishes such assistance to change his/her profile to give a general indication of where you are. We don't need your address or even your city. Your state (or if a small non-USA location, your country) is sufficient. If it is a large state or country, use "near (followed by any recognizable city within 100 or so miles)".

On another forum, this situation came up and everyone was advising the lady having problems to send her equipment to any number of repair centers in the country. I found out by PM that we lived 35 miles apart and told her about an authorized repair center in a nearby city. She had her camera repaired and back in two days.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

Factory reset your camera settings......and now what do you have?