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I find my new 200d sensor over exposes compared to my 100d sensor

Started Sep 20, 2019 | Discussions thread
Lee Jay Forum Pro • Posts: 56,673
Re: I find my new 200d sensor over exposes compared to my 100d sensor

EOS GUY wrote:

Lee Jay wrote:

EOS GUY wrote:

The 100d / sl1 sensor was great in blazing sunlight had a very film like highlight response, very gentle

All digital sensors cutoff at saturation. None have any sort of film-like roll-off.

You might be mistaking the in-camera raw conversion engine for a sensor effect.

I just got a 200d / sl2 and find that like the Nikon d5300 i had it overexposes too easily in sunlight

That sounds like a metering issue. Are you using evaluative or something else?

I've heard of people preferring older sensors- particularly the d700 and 5d 1 as they are nore 'film like'

Those people are delusional.

Today I had my sl2 set up same way and same lens as my sl1 with highlight tone priority. Even with minus 1 ev dialed in it exposed way to hot.

Metering mode?

Evaluative exact same shooting set up on voth cameras. The d5300 did it too

I was so happy with the sl1 after the d5300 as i could open up raw files in acr without swathes of red clipping warning everywhere in summer shots

Those warnings are not necessarily clipped pixels in the raw data.  Move exposure down and see if they come back.

My suggestion is to avoid highlight tone priority and just underexpose a bit at a lower ISO.  HTP makes things worse, not better, if you shoot in raw.

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