Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd7tw2no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.76.153.169 Message-ID: <3FAC7E6A.80409@shaw.ca> From: Ken Weitzel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.comp.dev.digital-camera Subject: Re: Olympus 550 Dark Picture?? References: <3FA155EA.1020709@usit.net> <3FA1A179.8020405@usit.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 44 Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 05:26:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.66.94.143 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: pd7tw2no 1068269197 24.66.94.143 (Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:26:37 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:26:37 MST Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.comp.dev.digital-camera:1089 Hi Dave... Did the flash fire? Have you inadvertantly tampered with the +/- EV settings and told the camera to go -2 stops? Ken Dave wrote: > no I was inside. Even inside my pictures are clear and well defined. > Here is the pic.. > Thanks for the reply... > David > > John Owens wrote: > >> Were you in bright sunlight this time and not befor? I find even with >> an LCD viewfinder that in sunlight I can barley see the image. It's >> eve worse with an LCD screen. The brain changes our vision and looking >> at a dim image with one eye will not cause the eye to compensate from >> a bright light situation. >> John >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:14:51 GMT, Dave wrote: >> >> >>> I took a picture today and when I looked at my pic through the >>> view finder it was not clear/bright. The picture was dark. You could >>> barley see the picture. You had to tilt the camera back and forth to >>> see it at all. But it was Dark.... Weird.. I have had this camera for >>> 2 years and this is the first. Have I changed something in my settings? >>> The Flash worked fine. The other pictures I took 3 days ago looked >>> fine.. >>> You have any Ideals what it might be? >>> email me at rave@usit.net >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >