You can check shutter speeds of pictures you already took.
Almost all cameras record the information when you take the picture.
The camera manual probably doesn't tell you how to do it after you have removed the picture from the camera.
Many photo editing programs can find it for you. Look thru the menus for Image Information or EXIF data.
I you can't find that and have a Windows computer you can:
1. Open the folder when the picture file you want to check out.
2. right click on the name of the file.
3. A menu should come up on the screen, left click on "properties"
4. You should see the file size & dates.
5. Left click on "summary" at the top
6. You should now see more information than you may want to know about the picture.
There should be shutter speed, f-stop, focal length, ISO speed and other data.
This should help to find problem, & find setting will work for you picture taking.
If you have a MAC someone on this can probably help to do the same with a MAC.
dsturgis
I have a Luna Pro meter, I got adapters for it that hold MS76 size batteries and us a diode to drop the voltage. It seems to accurate enough the give good exposure & reasonably match the reading of a camera with a good meter.
Another good meter is your digital camera if it reads out the exposure data.
I was taking pictures with a TLR Mamiya C220, I talked too some one that was admiring the old camera, I told him that the DSLR around my neck was my lighter meter. I was only party joking, I had no handheld meter with me. I took reading with the DSLR, took a picture & checked the exposure, when I saw what I liked I set up the Mamiya for that.
The biggest advantage of handheld meters may be incident light reading.
dsturgis
f 29
At f29 your picture will be diffraction limited cutting the resolution of your picture. Use such small f stops only if you need a great depth of field. Since IR focus is different that visible light you might need a small f stop or find the proper focus distance. Your camera 12Mp APS sensor will be diffraction limited in the range of f8 to 11.9.
You should be able to set both f-stop & shutter speed in manual mode, you can try to get to f 11 at about 12 sec or f8 at 6 second
dsturgis
Energizer batteries are alkaline, so vinegar is proper to clean up the corrosion. Vinegar is proper for cleaning up after silver oxide batteries also. Auto batteries are lead acid that is why baking soda is used for them.
dsturgis
Lost Hawaian
Do you have this stripe down the right side when you take a jpg with your camera. If the jpg is clean I think you can rule out a problem with the sensor, lens and shutter.
Does this happen all the time, the stripe makes me think that the file transfer was not complete, if from camera to the card, or card to the computer.
I use Photo Pro X3 to convert my raw files. I have settled on it after trying Picasa and the Pentax software that came with my camera. Are the raw files in nef(nikon raw) which Photo Pro X3 should support?
If you want to email me a file off list (dsturgis45@gmail.com)
I can try to convert it to a jpeg to see if it still has a stripe.
Your camera model might be so new that your software needs, a update.
For a while Photo Pro X3 was afforing automatic updates, but now they may just be offering a discount on X4>
dsturgis
I assume