Faulty camera ? dark images

deanos

For a couple of weeks my camera takes dark shots outside, its a sony WX150 , i reset the camera as advised by Sony which fixed it for 1 shot then went back same again :cool:

I have taken 2 pics , both in same spot 2 seconds apart this is from when i reset my camera, they were took in I Auto mode so no settings to adjust and nothing was changed between shots

Any idea what the problem could be ?

http://imageshack.com/a/img593/546/yuy1.jpg
http://imageshack.com/a/img811/7296/6ess.jpg

InsideInsurance

It is difficult to say as the second photo is correctly exposed for the sky hence the rest of the photo looks dark. The first photo appears to be exposed for the fence hence why the sky is blown.

Does the camera indicate anywhere what its using as the exposure point? Presumably it isnt sent to some kind of manual HDR?

deanos

i never had this problem until recently though, i didn't touch any settings between shots or move position, the 1st picture is a true representation of the daylight it was took in, it wasn't dark at all, even in really bright sunlight the images are really dark

InsideInsurance

Do you have any other pictures? Particularly for example actually in dark environment?

closed

dark one is 1/500 f3.3 iso100 3.2MB size

lighter one was 1/80th second, so >6 times more light 5.2MB size

assuming batteries were ok, and sensor not covered, probably a light sensor fault.

deanos

no sensor not covered, thanks, here is a pic in a dark garage just a dim lightbulb pic is ok

http://imageshack.com/a/img842/7927/iloa.jpg

wba31

Looks to me like point of exposure.

First picture looks like it's been set to the fence or the garden so the camera has adjusted to bring all items under similar light conditions into visibility.

Second image looks like this has been set to the sky, which looks much brighter than the environment of the garden.

Does the camera have a landscape mode, for shooting a view? these will try and set balances so everything is visible, see if you get such differing results shooting with this? when you have the camera set to auto it has to guess what it is looking at...

S0litaire

their might be an option to set the light meter, it's usually (depending on the camera!) one of the following options "Spot", "Centre" & "Average".

With Spot: It's the point on the image you press to focus on (it might not be the centre of the image.)
With centre : It's the centre of the image the camera uses for light levels
With Average : Well you can guess what this is! the average light level of the whole image is worked out and used.

deanos

I have had a reply from Sony and they said its faulty and to send back to them for repair , like i say never had this problem before with any camera and it didn't used to do it just recently.

Thanks for the help

Pinkypants

The camera is fine to me.

It just where the light metering has been taken from that's the issue.

Cameras cannot see as well as the human eye. Us humans can see detail in shadows and also detail in very bright conditions too, quite a range of light.

Cameras can only "see" about a 1/3 of what us humans can see. The first picture is exposed correctly for the fence and the garden, but if you look at it the sky has no detail in it. It's what's known as blown out, the camera sensor can't give you detail in both the dark areas and the light areas at the same time.

The 2nd shot shows a correctly exposed sky, you can see the clouds and the details in them, but it has made the overall scene darker to compensate, hence the darker image.

Hope that helps explain how cameras work a little.

This link will explain it better then I just did!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulfILqYI5T8

deanos

no its not right, had the camera 8 months never had the problem before, got a panasonic camera which i use at work and take about 30 outdoor shots everyday outside and it hasn't took dark pictures, even if i take pictures in the conservatory with good light they come out dark