RxForB3
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I'm trying to do a night time timelapse video with my Canon 6D. When I do simply night shots or night timelapses, I set the camera in manual mode and expose based on my instinct of what the appropriate exposure should be (say 25 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 to 3200) without looking at the light meter. However, twice now I've tried to do timelapses going from daytime to night time. My problem is that the camera appears to think that a 1 second exposure at ISO 1600 is appropriate in pitch dark. Even with the lens cap on, it says 1 second is enough. If I take a picture of a dark room, it again suggests 1 second. In manual mode, if I set the shutter speed to 25 seconds, it warns me that I'm vastly overexposing even if the resulting picture is perfectly exposed. Any suggestions what might be causing this? Is this normal? It happens with all forms of metering (evaluative, partial, spot, etc.).