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Shutter speed Madness?


gareth_c

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Sorry if a similar issue has been discussed before, I did a search but couldn't find anything.

 

So, I took my M8 along with me yesterday to meet some friends for a drink. All fun so far, except...

 

I was using the camera at f2 (35 summicron), 1250 ISO and the camera still insisted on exposures of between 4 and 8 seconds. Now, I knew it was dark in there but it wasn't that dark. My friend had his D200 along and when we tried a similar set up his camera defaulted to 1/2 second.

 

My results were totally over exposed and obviously just a blurry mess!

 

When I manually set the shutter speed I was just getting black frames, even at 1 second.

 

I turned the camera off for a bit, had a drink then took some shots outside...everything seemed back to normal. I went back inside, to exactly the same position, in the same conditions, tried again and suddenly got acceptable results at 1\2 second.

 

Quite what was happening the first time I can't work out. Has anyone had similar problems?

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Happened to me. The cause was that the shutter speed dial had been knocked from A to B, not all the way, just slightly off of A. Of course your's may not be the same problem.

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Happened to me only once. Just one shot in a series of shots in fairly low light was totally overexposed. Almost entirely white with just a couple of blurry gray spots here and there. Shots before and after were fine, and I didn't touch anything except focus while I was shooting.

 

Bill

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My M8's--I've had five of them to get the two I now use--have all been inclined to occassionally badly overexpose the first frame when coming out of standby. When I trace back the camera usage, they seem to be "holding on" to the previous exposure before they went into "sleep." A lot of quotation marks here, a lot of mystery. So, I'd say just immediately try another frame, because the second one is normal.

 

Walt

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