uncle aj
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My D300 has overexposedLast Friday I went over to Bahrain for a bit of bird watching. I spotted a desert warbler and as I had not seen many decent pictures of one on the net, I gave it all my attention. I'd decided to use the D300 due to the low noise capability but after getting some great shots of the warbler, they turned out to be massively overexposed.
Looking around the net, it seems to be a common fault with the camera and last night I was putting it through some tests and occasionally it did it again. I hope Nikon fix it with a firmware solution very quickly because at the moment I'm wary of using it. 
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Tools
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Sorry to hear your Nikon just isn't getting with the game....
Can't you set it to bracket the shot, or underexpose a stop or two... I mean if it is consistent or only happens in known conditions.
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uncle aj
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| Tools wrote: | Sorry to hear your Nikon just isn't getting with the game....
Can't you set it to bracket the shot, or underexpose a stop or two... I mean if it is consistent or only happens in known conditions.
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It was totally inconsistent and occurred out of the blue. I'm going to leave a message on Nikon's support site and see what they say. What annoys me the most is, I may never get another opportunity to photograph the warbler again.
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steve
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What sort of methodical tests did you do adrian, i would guess it could be a real issue taking candid bird shots like yourself, i haven't noticed anything then again I'm not at your level, and all of my shots so far have been structured, where i have been able to take the time to review the shot then adjust compensate if required, i'm shooting everything in raw too just to get accustomed to it and its qualities and versatility which is another safenet i guess. by testing do you mean taking the same structured shot several times on occassion the same shot was over exposed with no other variables must say the problem didn't raise itself taking my watch pics after i initially dialled in the compensation it stayed bang on throughout several hundred shots [coming soon!  ]
steve
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uncle aj
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For a quick test, I kept taking the same subject with various ISO and then image settings. They were inconsistent to say the least. The image below is a straight Jpeg from the camera. It's only been resized and not altered in any other way. The NEF RAW file has been attached to a question to Nikon. Let's see what they come up with.
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steve
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That's a shame!  are your concerns its inconsistant metering on the D300 
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uncle aj
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| steve wrote: | | That's a shame! are your concerns its inconsistant metering on the D300 |
Exactly................how can I go for a once in a lifetime shot when I can't rely on the exposure settings. I've lost all confidence in the camera.
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uncle aj
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I may have discovered the problem. Today I went through the whole setup of the camera and kept taking pictures that were not consistent. I got the manual out and went through it page by page. Then it struck me  The exposure bracketing mode had been set On and the camera was taking a set of three pictures at different exposures. I can only think this happened when I packed the body in my cabin baggage or while I was out on Friday. Everything has been reset and after a number of test shots, it seems OK. 
Let's hope this is the end of the problem. 
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Tools
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Well, we're waiting for the next flock of shots..
Is the bracketed data still there from your earlier field shots...?
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uncle aj
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| Tools wrote: | Well, we're waiting for the next flock of shots..
Is the bracketed data still there from your earlier field shots...? |
I'll have to have a look Larry and get back to you.
Just had a look and that information is not included in the metadata. 
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steve
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When I mentioned "I'm not at your level" I meant I'm better than you   then again as i know not much  how could it be anything other than user error, there's no way!! my nice new shiny prosumer D300 could be at fault
steve
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steve
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i haven't got as far as bracketed exposure at my level i actually thought it took several shots either side 
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uncle aj
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| steve wrote: | | i haven't got as far as bracketed exposure at my level i actually thought it took several shots either side |
It does and I think this is what happened. The first shot of the sequence was the one that was saved in the camera. My camera was setup where you had to keep pressing the shutter for the other two in the sequence. I was only getting number one. The bracketing would time out before I took the next shot. The following picture was not as bad as the others and I managed to resurect it in Photoshop from the RAW file.
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steve
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seems all was not lost then faith restored . i deliberately shot some really under and over exposed shots in raw and was impressed, first time i've shot and PP raw shots, how well NX recovered/corrected them a noticable difference when attempting to do the exact same adjustments with the jpeg . i could imagine it would be a pain maybe to add raw into a workflow if given a large quantity to PP but kinda cool safety net if you haven't got the time or opportunity to check your settings, that;s the approach i'm going to attempt to apply with regard shooting raw
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