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Re: [OM] E-520 question

Subject: Re: [OM] E-520 question
From: "Goss,Steve" <SGOSS@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:32:11 +0000
Philippe, Moose, Chuck-
I just checked, and AE bracket, WB bracket and FL bracket are all off.
The exposure comp is always at -0.3 to help cut down on blown highlights.  
There aren't any highlights that need taming in this shot, but one of the guys 
has a lime green kayak that positively glows, and always clips when it is 
anywhere near sunshine.

Usually when I shoot multiple pictures they are all exposed similarly, but 
occasionally the first one will be darker. It's generally after the camera has 
been sitting for a while, but I'm not sure how long of a pause it requires.

One other bit of data: If I turn the camera on and immediately take a picture, 
it sounds like a picture has been taken, but the resulting image is entirely 
black. If I count to three or four before taking a picture it comes out ok.

Judging from what I'm hearing, I'm leaning toward a camera fault. That is made 
worse by operator faults.

Thanks, 
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-----Original Message-----
From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+sgoss=cerner.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 5:04 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] E-520 question

It sounds to me like you may have autobracketing enabled.  (see page 50 of the 
E-520 manual).  Normally one would get three exposures... a base exposure and 
then a negative exposure compensation followed by positive exposure 
compensation with the exposure difference according to the settings you've 
chosen in the camera.

Exposure 613 looks like the negative exposure adjustment while 614 looks like 
the positive exposure adjustment.  What's missing is image 612 which would be 
the base exposure if I'm right about autobracketing.  The bracketing process is 
interrupted if you don't leave your finger on the shutter button long enough to 
get all 3 exposures.  It all hangs together for me except for missing image 612.

Ooops!  I just blew my theory out of the water by looking at the EXIF data from 
both images.  Both say ISO 200, f/4, 1/800 sec, exp comp -0.3

Sorry, I don't have a clue.  Is it repeatable?

Chuck Norcutt


On 4/13/2015 4:57 PM, Goss,Steve wrote:
> Hi, Y'all-
> I took these two shots Saturday. The camera was set for multiple shots, and 
> made two exposures while I had my finger on the shutter button. Since the 
> second one was taken immediately after the first one, I would expect the 
> exposures to be the same. But they aren't. I've seen this several times with 
> this camera, and I'm wondering whether this is normal for the 520, or whether 
> it needs to be repaired. My E-510 doesn't do this.
>   There was a 16 minute gap between the first picture and the previous one, 
> if that makes a difference.
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17029
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17032
> No editing has been done to ether image.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Goss | MDI System Engineer | Cerner Corporation | Mobile: (816) 

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