Sarbjit, With flash and the EOS A2E you need to know that: With Eye focus ON and/or CF15 to 0 the flash uses the cental focus-point to measure the correct flash-lighting of the main subject. If your main subject is not there at the moment of the flash, than you have a problem. To do it correctly do the folowing: - Set CF 15 to 1 (link spot-measurment to the manualy chosen focus-point) - Swith Eye-focus OFF - Choose the focus-point that covers your main-subject. Another idea migth be that the camera thinks that it has to use Auto Fill-in flash, because of the bright background. With CF16 you can switch this function off (set CF16 to 1) If nothing helpes, than I think your body needs a re-adjustment/repair, after you tried another lab.
Drikus BTW an EOS A2E is not a low-end body ;-) Singh, Sarbjit (S.) wrote: > 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 ***********************************************************
