Dark images
Jan 9, 2022 17:12:02 #
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
Jan 9, 2022 17:27:53 #
Larry76
Loc: Alabama
After saving photos, re-format memory card. Remove battery, and any cables, and lenses, and memory cards; wait 30 seconds. Reinstall battery, and memory card ONLY; Go to the Menu and find camera RESET. Repeat several times to double check the continuation of unwanted settings or worse electrical fault. If does not work, consider Nikon Service. Good luck.
Jan 9, 2022 17:51:44 #
There are several types of bracketing available on the D5 - sounds to me like one is somehow engaged. Working through the menus and the manual thoroughly is probably worth your time before sending to Nikon. If you have custom settings you may want to save them to a card before a full reset.
Jan 9, 2022 17:58:37 #
Michael Sabetsky wrote:
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
Hard to say without a sample that still has the EXIF (this is about the only time when the EXIF is useful). But I would guess that you did something wrong.
Jan 9, 2022 18:21:56 #
Michael Sabetsky wrote:
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
Let's see three examples as original unedited JPEGs and stored as attachments. But, isn't the 3-image bracketing functions supposed to return 1-dark, 1-light, and 1-just right?
Jan 9, 2022 18:27:19 #
Turn bracketing OFF, not just set to 0.
Turn HDR OFF, too.
That's my WAG. Good luck. Post how you fixed the problem, too.
Turn HDR OFF, too.
That's my WAG. Good luck. Post how you fixed the problem, too.
Jan 10, 2022 08:08:03 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
Quixdraw wrote:
There are several types of bracketing available on the D5 - sounds to me like one is somehow engaged. Working through the menus and the manual thoroughly is probably worth your time before sending to Nikon. If you have custom settings you may want to save them to a card before a full reset.
Yup, my guess it is turned on somewhere. If it was off it wouldn't be bracketing, Y/N?Jan 10, 2022 12:30:37 #
Jan 10, 2022 15:08:58 #
Michael Sabetsky wrote:
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
You use the word imaging. I suspect that it may be for focus, not exposure. Can you be more specific?
Jan 10, 2022 15:15:00 #
Michael Sabetsky wrote:
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
With most cameras the simplest way is to just do a reset - usually much quicker than trying to figure out what unintended settings are causing the problem
Jan 10, 2022 17:45:00 #
JimBart
Loc: Western Michigan
I would try a total factory reset first… also I’d check exposure comp settings. That what my problem was. Reset didn’t catch it.
Jan 10, 2022 19:15:18 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
My argument against doing a reset too quickly is that while it may (or may not) fix the problem you will never know what caused it in the first place. And since you don't know whether it was a camera problem or user error, you'll never know when or where it might happen again...
Jan 10, 2022 22:24:35 #
larryepage wrote:
My argument against doing a reset too quickly is that while it may (or may not) fix the problem you will never know what caused it in the first place. And since you don't know whether it was a camera problem or user error, you'll never know when or where it might happen again...
That is so true. Better to ferret out the errant setting than to just give up and nuke the thing back to factory specs.
It's a sad sight to see a user buy an expensive camera and then not read the manual. It's worth the 30 minutes a page for 500 pages or so just to understand what can be done with it. Yes, I wrote 30 *minutes.* PLAY with the settings as you read, and do what you're reading about, to see the effect of the tool. If you don't have the patience to do that, photography might not be the ideal hobby or vocation for you.
Jan 11, 2022 06:04:58 #
Any way the OP doesn't come back and provide any more information. He may got it fixed but didn't bother to tell us.
Jan 12, 2022 16:05:59 #
Michael Sabetsky wrote:
This is a problem that just recently started. I use a Nikon D5. The bracket number is set to zero, yet I get dark, light or just properly exposed images. I've tried all the modes from full matrix imaging to spot imaging. I have even upped my EV & when I take the same photo one comes up light, one comes up dark & the other comes up fine. I'm taking the same views. What am I doing wrong? This is driving me crazy.
Could it have anything to do with any HDR settings that you have or may have changed?
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