Bright white results !

[daveg]

Hi
Can anyone please help.
When i take digital photos outside, upon trying to view them through the lcd screen ,all i get is a bright white pic,
Internal darkish shots are ok.
Is the camera letting in light , and is the anything I can do .

Thanks for help

Fujifilm A205s.


Dave

[daveg]

come on surely one of you has an idea.!!

[Lara]

Dave, LCD monitors are notorious for poor quality viewing in bright sunlight. It's just the nature of the LCD screen. More so in some cameras than others.

[daveg]

Lara
Thanks for your post.
However the camera never used to do this. Its pure white when I d/l onto pc (therfore no picture is visible at all )
Im 100% sure its faulty, just dont know why , or how to remedy it.

Thanks again

Dave

[another view]

There must be a setting that's wrong somewhere. Does the camera have a manual exposure mode that maybe you're in - or some other setting got changed?

[Chunk]

can you get the exif data with that camera? Post that.

[Lara]

Oh I see Dave. I misunderstood. I'm glad Chunk and Steve can guide you in the right direction. They would know much better than I.

[Chunk]

Lara, I was thinking the same as you until we got a followup saying that the photos wwere bad too and that the condition was different than before. You gave a good response for the limited info given.

I'm thinking that if we can see exif data from before and after the problem started, we can see if some setting has been changed.

[another view]

I'm thinking that if we can see exif data from before and after the problem started, we can see if some setting has been changed.

Right - or even from just a problem image. Where I think Chunk is going with this is to look at the shutter speed, aperture and ISO, and compare that to the sunny 16 rule (do you have one shot outside on a sunny day?). With sunny 16, if your aperture is f16 then your shutter speed should be about the reciprocal of the ISO speed. This means 1/125 at ISO100 but it will vary a little if there's clouds, etc. Compact digital cameras don't stop down to f16, but with the EXIF data we can figure it out. If it's a sunny day and you're way off from sunny 16, then that's where the problem is.

If you're not familiar with it, EXIF data is the shooting data that's kept with an image. It's viewable in Photoshop or probably any other image editing program but where to find that info depends on what program you're using.

[Chunk]

I was thinking more of exposure modes, metering mode, Exposure bias settings, ISO- things like that would tell if some setting was inadvertently changed. Your ideas is worthy as well, Steve.

[SmartWombat]

A205 doesn't seem to have a full manual mode.
From what I see the onlien manual it just has EV compensation and WB adjust in "manual" mode.

So I reckon it's a fault.
There's almost nothing to adjust to create this, I think.