Canon T1i underexposing images automatically?

Tyorik · Feb 12, 2011

I went out to shoot some wildlife today, everything was great, I got home and reviewed some of the shots - still great. For some reason though, now when I half-press the shutter the camera defaults to -2 exposure compensation and I can't figure out how to change it. The exposure compensation bar is set to 0, but a half-press always changes it to -2 now. I'm not sure if I changed a setting by accident or not, but I set all settings back to default and it's still doing it, and only in M mode.

Edit: I have an idea that maybe I hit the exposure lock, but I don't know how to unlock it. Hmm.

Edit Edit: This is really annoying me and I need to use this camera for class pretty soon. I don't know what's causing this, but there's not a single setting I can find to make it stop defaulting to -2 exposure with the half press. I can't even use manual mode right now, argh!

Edsport · Feb 12, 2011

Try setting it to overexpose by +2...

Tyorik · Feb 12, 2011

I was under the impression that exposure compensation isn't supposed to work in M mode...?

In anycase, no matter what I do to exp. comp. when I half-press it defaults back to -2 (a blinking bar appears right above -2, regardless of shutter speed/aperture setting)

Robin Usagani · Feb 12, 2011

ready your manual!

You are on a manual setting so you have to set everything your self!

FranDaMan · Feb 12, 2011

LOL.....it simply means your image is underexposed because of your settings.
It doesnt have anything to do with compensation.

Set your fstop to F4.0 and your shutterspeed to 15 seconds and see if it is still blinking at -2

Tyorik · Feb 12, 2011

FranDaMan said:
LOL.....it simply means your image is underexposed because of your settings.
It doesnt have anything to do with compensation.

Set your fstop to F4.0 and your shutterspeed to 15 seconds and see if it is still blinking at -2

:blushing:

Yeah you got me. My first thought was "This guy doesn't understand my problem at all - f4 at '15, duh! It's still gonna read--damn..."

I think I forgot I had it set on 1/125 at f2.8, but I've never noticed it read under/overexposure like that, so I figured it was changing settings for me, which didn't make any sense in M.

Aaaaaaanyway, thanks. :thumbup: