Film exposure

[shutterbug182]

I have a Canon eos 3000N, my exposures always seem to be over exposed, when i scan them into photoshop. Would this have something to do with the center weighted metering sytem?, or would it be just wrong exposures?

I usually take a reading of the subject and expose for an mid grey reading.

thanks,

Sarah

[PhotoGimp]

It's really hard to say without some samples. It could be a variation of things, like film type(slide vs print), you may have exposure compensation activated on your camera, could be bad processing, or scanning. Put up some examples. One thing to try, if you take your film to a reputable lab, have them scan to cd, it usaually is very little, and then you have something to compare your scans to!

[Sebastian]

That has nothing to do with your camera and everythying to dow ith your scanner. If you're worried about exposure check yourslides, not the scans, and go from there. Otherwise just tell the scanner to use a darker exposure.

[another view]

I know of a photographer who did a series of test shots every time he got a new camera. He took six or seven different scenes at -2/3, -1/3, 0, 1/3 and 2/3 compensation to the meter reading then picked the best one of each group. From that, he determined where the ISO should be set based on the combination of that camera and that film. He did this because he noticed that cameras could be off 1/3 or sometimes 2/3 stop in either direction (total of 1-1/3 stop difference). This is literally night and day with slide film.

So it could be a lot of things. If you shoot slides and their exposure is correct, it has nothing to do with the camera or your metering technique. If you shoot neg film take a look at the negatives themselves, not the prints from the negatives.