K-S2, its one second display, and the 18-135

Historicity wrote:

walgarch wrote:

It might also be worth trying the green button while in manual mode to get the exposure settings the camera thinks it needs to properly expose and compare it to the values you were using. If they're the same or similar then there's defintely something up with the camera

Will,

I normally do that when starting out in the manual mode. Usually I start with the aperture wider than the green button recommends. But I was experimenting with different modes as a result of a discussion in regard to the K-S1. I probably should have held off starting a thread until I had been out with it a few more times. But seeing the darkness and then finding that all the photos cleaned up nicely in Lightroom, I became convinced there was something wrong. Only another test at home on a bright day with a different lens caused me to have doubts. That time with an FA50 1.5 the 1 sec display appeared normal.

Lawrence

Lawrence,

I checked again your pictures, and based on what I saw in their (i) info, I believe that what the camera (or you) selected in a bright but cloudy day (what I assume it was), something like f:9, 1/800, ISO 800 should yield properly exposed pictures. And they should appear as you posted they requiring any additional exposure correction. And they should appear, either when immediately previewed, or later reviewed (by pressing the review button), perfect on the LCD as well.

Now, you claim that the immediate preview showed dark pictures, but the review was O.K. And what about the pictures posted? Did you brighten them?

if you are not sure whether your new camera is O.K., just aim this new K-S2 and any of your older camera (which you are sure that it works properly, like K-3 or K-S1) to the same object and make comparison of their exposure parameters. For such a test I would really recommend to use any automatic exposure mode (P, Tv, Av, etc.) and maybe JPEGs out of camera. If the K-S2 sets roughly the same exposure parameters (or slightly different parameters but leading to the same exposure), then everything is in order. Compare how they look in the review/immediate preview by the cameras and then download the pictures to your computer. Again, they should look (almost) identical.