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roseca · Nov 22, 2004, 2:47 PM

I'm new to digital photography (3 months) and love that I can preview my photos. Great for composition issues. But, when I look at the shot on the camera screen, it looks overexposed, so I do manual adjustments. When I download to my computer, the overexposed ones are perfect - seems that the camera screen is about 2 stops overexposed. So it isn't a help for getting my exposures right - the good side, is that I can bracket like crazy and then just delete the wrong exposures on my computer later. Anyone else deal with this? Any suggestions to correct it?

samcheri · Nov 23, 2004, 12:47 PM

The problem is the lcd not the exposure; the picture is NOT overexposed, but because of the characteristics of the lcd you see it as over exposed; you must have noticed that the pictures which look overexposed on the lcd look perfect when viewed after downloading to your computer; it can be somewhat mitigated by turning the lcd at an angle when you view your pictures; in bright sunlight sometimes the S1 does over expose and it would be good to take the exposure down by 1/3 or 2/3 (Use P mode and the expsure compensation is the first item on the Function Menu.)

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Nov 22, 2004, 2:47 PM	#1
roseca Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1	I'm new to digital photography (3 months) and love that I can preview my photos. Great for composition issues. But, when I look at the shot on the camera screen, it looks overexposed, so I do manual adjustments. When I download to my computer, the overexposed ones are perfect - seems that the camera screen is about 2 stops overexposed. So it isn't a help for getting my exposures right - the good side, is that I can bracket like crazy and then just delete the wrong exposures on my computer later. Anyone else deal with this? Any suggestions to correct it?

Nov 23, 2004, 12:47 PM	#2
samcheri Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 81	The problem is the lcd not the exposure; the picture is NOT overexposed, but because of the characteristics of the lcd you see it as over exposed; you must have noticed that the pictures which look overexposed on the lcd look perfect when viewed after downloading to your computer; it can be somewhat mitigated by turning the lcd at an angle when you view your pictures; in bright sunlight sometimes the S1 does over expose and it would be good to take the exposure down by 1/3 or 2/3 (Use P mode and the expsure compensation is the first item on the Function Menu.)