[Bryan Donnell]

Very useful to know, thanks.

[Bryan Donnell]

Did you ever find out why the auto-exposure runs so dark on the EX3?

[Bryan Donnell]

Those who have responded, take a step back and look at how you’ve answered the fellow: as if he were completely inexperienced, and even stupid.

The fact is that the EX3’s auto-exposure IS terribly off. If I come in asking about why this is, assuming I’m even moderately experienced, having people suggest I calibrate my monitor, check to see if my ND is off, or even “learn to use the manual controls” is only going to annoy me. Patronizing and useless at best. It doesn’t even make sense to say the ND might be the problem, if he’s already saying that manual works.

Sorry, but with all due respect, I dislike it when one asks a question and can’t get a proper answer because people assume you are a pre-schooler. It lowers the level of the forums to technically useless as well.

As a doc shooter, I can tell you that auto-exposure is often a useful reference point when you are moving quickly. In my brief experience with the EX3 the auto-exposure is useless because it’s so far off — it feels as if there were something wrong with the firmware, it’s so dark, to where I’d wonder if even color correction could help without a lot of noise added.

So to cut to the question again, is there a practical reason why the auto-exposure would be so low? Are there settings in the PP, like gamma etc, that throw the auto-exposure off so radically? if so it must be a design flaw. I have, yes, tried stepping up the TLCS levels, but it doesn’t seem to make it work properly.

Any insights?

Thanks in advance….