I consider myself a pro-amateur photographer, some years ago updated my equipment with and EOS A2E camera and EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 USM and EF 100-300f4.5-5.6 USM lenses. Also recently I bought a 550EX flash along with an extension chord.
I thought that this equipment will help me get some really creative pictures - but role after role of film comes back underexposed with daylight and flash photography - any pictures that I take with self firing slave units (not wirelessly controlled by 550EX) to get an overexposed background - the subject comes out horribly underexposed and the background is not overexposed. Mostly I use the P (Program mode) to override the exposure compensation. Recently, I have started setting the ASA/DIN value of the film to 1/4 of the value shown on film. (i.e. manually setting 200 film to 50). This improved the results but I feel there is loss of contrast in some pictures. All pictures at normal settings seem to underexpose by 1.5-2.0 F-stops. Please suggest tests or remedies for the problem. Another friend of mine has the same problem using an EOS-Rebel body - is this problem on all low end EOS products. Also do you think the problem is related to developing pictures at a pharmacy etc - that their printing machines try to correct every negative to 18% gray to compensate for pictures taken with disposable cameras etc (in the process darkening overexposed areas in creative pictures). If the printers at stores do set to 18% gray do they analyze each negative or just the first print on the film. Regards, Sarb Singh * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
