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Canon SD630 Over-Exposure ? check out these pics

by ElanX May 22, 2007 7:59AM PDT

I was trying to take pictures of a graduation ceremony outside with my Canon SD630, and all the whites were completely blown out. As you can see, the photos are over-exposed and soft. I tried to compensate by lowering the exposure, but it barely helped. Is this normal for the SD630? Was this just a weird lighting? I haven't gotten to use it too much yet. Should I return and try another one?

http://picasaweb.google.com/ElanEX/CanonSD630?authkey=5ziC5wKlOHA

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You were in bright sunlight with dark backgrounds and dark
by Kiddpeat May 22, 2007 9:19AM PDT

subjects. It looks like the camera exposed for background and subjects. That meant that anything with sun light on it was overexposed. It's simply a high contrast situation, and the camera did the best it could. I note that one photo where everything is darker came out fine.

There's nothing wrong with the camera. Taking photos in direct sun light is difficult.

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by snapshot2 Forum moderator May 22, 2007 11:04AM PDT

The halo effect around all of the whites makes me think of a camera that has a fingerprint on the lens.

Check the lens (glass) carefully for fingerprints or smudges.

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I would like to know the aperture, shutter speed, ISO setting, and flash setting.
All of that information is stored in the EXIF of the image.
Apparently the software used to reduce the size of the photo or Picasas, stripped out the EXIF information.

Without that information it is impossible to come to a conclusion.

I tried to use Photoshop Elements to fix the photos.
I improved them but could not get rid of the halo effect.

It appears to me that there is a problem with the camera.

If you can get them to exchange the camera, I would do it.

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Have you considered the possibility that the white objects
by Kiddpeat May 23, 2007 1:26AM PDT

are functioning like bounce cards reflecting the intense sun light on to darker objects? Bounce cards are used in the studio, as you may know, to add light to portions of a subject. The shot, for example, which shows a large number of brightly lit chairs would have a lot of reflected light, and that can easily account for the observed effect on the darker subjects.

It seems telling that shots where there is little, or no, direct sun light have little or no 'haloing', or light reflecting onto a surface where the light is undesirable.

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by soop9 May 26, 2007 6:43AM PDT

I have the same problem and funny enough at a graduation today. Except in my case I get a total white out. If I take indoor pictures it is fuzzy. I have taken pictures outside in direct sun light, etc.. before without any problems since I have had the camera for exactly a year now (I bought it on 5/26/2005, just checked the receipt). something has gone wrong!!

The other piece of info is that I could take movies and will not white out the image but it exhibits the fuzzy whites as you show in your photos.

I will let you know if I figure it out but it seems the detector has gone bad or something. I also used the menu and did a total reset just in case some setting went wrong but no change.

It's too bad, I really like this camera and have had no problems until now after a year.

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