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Canon Powershot SX40 HS washing out shots

Started Feb 3, 2012 | Discussions thread
OP TAM63 Senior Member • Posts: 2,633
Re: Canon Powershot SX40 HS washing out shots

I'm not sure of anything, since I'm not looking at the camera. But I did ask, and she swears it is always on auto, and that she doesn't even know how to change any settings yet. I specifically asked if it was on sports mode, and she said nope, always auto.

About 1/3 of the time, it picks reasonable settings. 2/3 of the time, it's something like I posted. And those are interspersed as she's walking around shooting in what appear to me to be fairly similar conditions.

The thing is - not only is it picking a high iso, it's also picking an extremely fast shutter speed to go with it. So it doesn't seem like it's pushing up the ISO because it thinks there isn't enough light. Sounds like some sort of extreme sports mode, but she says that isn't the case.

If it was my camera, and resetting it didn't make that stop, I'd be calling tech support too - I agree entirely.

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