d50 shoots low

[memphishooter]

Usually when I am shooting with the d50 it tends to take darker pics with a flash sometimes. Usually I have to lighten up the shots in post work. They look great in viewfinder, but not onscreen in a paint program.

[eduardofrances]

have you setted FEC to be lower?, the exposure compensation has been changed? wich metering mode are you using? wich mode (av, tv, M, p or vari programs)? this can help us to know what may be wrong ;)


In the viewfinder you wont see how the final image is exposed.

[K1W1]

Check the calibration of your PC monitor. Do the images look dark on other monitors?

[rawpaw18]

I had similar issues but not just with the flash, the viewfinder looked great but on the pc darker with loss of detail in the shadows. I had some printed and to me looked alot like the viewfinder and not like they did on the computer. So if you lighten before making prints you may want to keep that in mind.

[wisely_foolish]

I had the opposite problem happen to me. I was using auto mode,50mm f1.8 with the SB-800 TTL flash, on the LCD and computer screen it looked beautiful and bright but when I printed it out at the photostore, it turned out to be darker than usual. I don't know what went wrong, maybe nikon picture project enhanced the shots but the photoprocessing place I went and transferred the images to, the photos lost all that enhancement?

[toriaj]

If you downloaded the pics to your computer, then used PictureProject, then just took your memory card to be developed, the memory card would only have had the original shots saved. If you use post-processing, you have to save the images again, and take that to be developed.

What I do is to download the memory card to the computer, then erase the memory card. I process the pics, and burn them to a CD. Then take the CD to the store to be developed.