Novelectro
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Hi All,
First post so hopefully I am in the right place. I'm still learning a lot and am pretty new - but I figured this question wasn't completely basic, so here goes.
I'm into nightsky photography and I recently picked up a Rokinon 16mm f2.0 lens for my canon 70d. It appears that it's one of the best nightsky lenses for aps-c cameras and I'm really excited to use it. It's a manual lens and so understand my I need to adjust focus and aperture via the lens itself and not my camera.
What I'm confused about right now is that my camera doesn't seem to tell me the appropriate exposure at all prior to taking a picture. Basically if I set my shutter speed to what my camera says is zero/in the middle/ perfectly exposed - the photo image when I view it is significantly underexposed. In order for me to expose properly where the histogram is in the middle - I actually need to take the picture at somewhere around +2 or +3. This doesn't seem right to me, but then again I'm still very much a novice.
I bought the lens used, so most importantly I want to make sure that I didn't get hosed by a faulty lens (or maybe there is even something wrong with my camera? But I don't seem to have this problem with my kit lens).
Thanks in advance to anyone who has some suggestions!
First post so hopefully I am in the right place. I'm still learning a lot and am pretty new - but I figured this question wasn't completely basic, so here goes.
I'm into nightsky photography and I recently picked up a Rokinon 16mm f2.0 lens for my canon 70d. It appears that it's one of the best nightsky lenses for aps-c cameras and I'm really excited to use it. It's a manual lens and so understand my I need to adjust focus and aperture via the lens itself and not my camera.
What I'm confused about right now is that my camera doesn't seem to tell me the appropriate exposure at all prior to taking a picture. Basically if I set my shutter speed to what my camera says is zero/in the middle/ perfectly exposed - the photo image when I view it is significantly underexposed. In order for me to expose properly where the histogram is in the middle - I actually need to take the picture at somewhere around +2 or +3. This doesn't seem right to me, but then again I'm still very much a novice.
I bought the lens used, so most importantly I want to make sure that I didn't get hosed by a faulty lens (or maybe there is even something wrong with my camera? But I don't seem to have this problem with my kit lens).
Thanks in advance to anyone who has some suggestions!