pinkstardust
TPF Noob!
While I've been taking pictures for about 10 years now, I've just started getting into the technical aspect of things.
I bought a Canon Rebel EOS K2 off of Ebay just this past summer and was quite pleased with it. But since I've started taking photography classes, my pictures are consistently turning out horrible. They're either too dark or too light (mostly the former), and it's entirely frustrating for me. I've been using no flash (since we weren't allowed to use the flash anyway), but even if the room is perfectly well-lighted, everything still comes out looking rather dark.
Just recently, I used up two rolls of film (ISO 200 - my current teacher wants us to use slower ISOs) as I needed to tell about myself in 30 pictures. Long story short, I got them developed, and out of the 48, I only got 28. Out of those 28, most of those are either too dark and/or have fragments of other pictures where they aren't supposed to be, making roughly 5 even remotely usable. I can change apertures/shutter speeds, but regardless, my camera says it is perfectly exposed and I still get mostly too dark pictures if taken indoors and with a good amount of lighting. (I may add some scans later of these pictures too if I get a chance).
I'm going to go to a repair shop this morning to get my camera checked for shutter speed and aperture accuracy (as my teacher told us all to do), and possibly talk to the repair guy and my teacher about it, but I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions for me in the meantime? I'm considering buying a Nikon D50 dSLR to use instead for this class if I need to.
And a total n00b question - if I were to buy said Nikon camera, would my Canon lenses work with it too?
Thank you so much! :heart:
I bought a Canon Rebel EOS K2 off of Ebay just this past summer and was quite pleased with it. But since I've started taking photography classes, my pictures are consistently turning out horrible. They're either too dark or too light (mostly the former), and it's entirely frustrating for me. I've been using no flash (since we weren't allowed to use the flash anyway), but even if the room is perfectly well-lighted, everything still comes out looking rather dark.
Just recently, I used up two rolls of film (ISO 200 - my current teacher wants us to use slower ISOs) as I needed to tell about myself in 30 pictures. Long story short, I got them developed, and out of the 48, I only got 28. Out of those 28, most of those are either too dark and/or have fragments of other pictures where they aren't supposed to be, making roughly 5 even remotely usable. I can change apertures/shutter speeds, but regardless, my camera says it is perfectly exposed and I still get mostly too dark pictures if taken indoors and with a good amount of lighting. (I may add some scans later of these pictures too if I get a chance).
I'm going to go to a repair shop this morning to get my camera checked for shutter speed and aperture accuracy (as my teacher told us all to do), and possibly talk to the repair guy and my teacher about it, but I was just wondering if any of you had any suggestions for me in the meantime? I'm considering buying a Nikon D50 dSLR to use instead for this class if I need to.
And a total n00b question - if I were to buy said Nikon camera, would my Canon lenses work with it too?
Thank you so much! :heart: