blown highlights or broken light meter??

[cdnphotographer]

please tell me i"m just not suing this corrcetly b/c if it's broken I won't be happy

now this is using manual ( I obviosuly don't know the settings yet but wanted to take a shot to show you):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0248.jpg

and this is turning the dial to custom:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0247.jpg

see the soft around the white?? How can I eliminate that if at all?

I asked a friend and she said sound slike my light meter is off BUT I didn't set anything so I'm hoping this is just user error???

[Vich]

Are you using some sort of filter?

[coldrain]

Looks to me like you have to clean the lens with some lens cleaning fluid and a special soft cloth. Typical of a smudged lens, I think.

[BowerR64]

Looks like somthing on the lens to me too. Can you cup your hand around the end of the lens? block some of the light?

[cdnphotographer]

a smudged lens would do that? I don't know b/c when I take a shot in any other setting it doesn't do that. Only in bright light and/or around white objects.

[XaiLo]

please tell me i"m just not suing this corrcetly b/c if it's broken I won't be happy

now this is using manual ( I obviosuly don't know the settings yet but wanted to take a shot to show you):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0248.jpg

and this is turning the dial to custom:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0247.jpg

see the soft around the white?? How can I eliminate that if at all?

I asked a friend and she said sound slike my light meter is off BUT I didn't set anything so I'm hoping this is just user error???

The first one just looks like looks like it's just blown because the settings are off. Post the exif data that will tell the story behind the photo.

The second one at this time is more telling but at the same time without the exif data it would still be only a guess.

The two modes that have issues are the ones that can be set to almost anything.

What's your white balance set to?
Are you using a filter?

I think your settings are just off, in "Custom" and "Manual" they are not like the preset at least not "Manual" and custom depends on what it was set to.

[cdnphotographer]

well shut my mouth and never question the experts LOL I don't know what did it, maybe at the factory no one double checked and cleaned it off but almost the entire lense had a grease mark on it :confused: :confused: so I wiped it off and:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0364_1_1.jpg

That takes care of the white "glow" as for the extreme white out on the first shot... that's just plain ol' user error :o I actually worked with the settings and moved the apature hahaha and viola (not perfect but a lot better!!:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v55/EveNSean/IMG_0363_1_1.jpg

[XaiLo]

KewL I edited out (if it's not an obvious - smudge thinking that you would have checked that by now guess you did) LOL.

Glad all is well in the S3 neighborhood.

[coldrain]

The usual culprit of smudges like that is just your fingers touching the lens. A good cleaning set of soft cloth and special lens cleaning fluid should be in everyones standard kit.

[cdnphotographer]

this was no finger smudge, it was a perfectly rounded mark over 60% of the lens :confused:


just glad I'm the idot and the camera wasn't a dud LOL

[BowerR64]

Like some water splashed up and landed on the lens?

[cdnphotographer]

Like some water splashed up and landed on the lens?

nope like the lens pressed against some oily skin or something?