Quote Originally Posted by pinkmotherofpearl
I have the ISO set at 200...the F-stop set as low as it will go on my camera (5.3)
and unless I set the shutter speed to about 80....the pics very undexposed and yellowish . (and of course then if i shoot at shutter speed of 80...the pics are blurry)
I even have the white balance set at auto...or at "shade" and they are still very very dark.
(The meter always reads way below the center point)

Can somebody tell me how to get the right exposure (w/o making the iso really high and w/o using a flash?)

THANK you so much. This is driving me nuts.
Have you tried upping the ISO? The amount of light need to capture a image is constant. The amount of light need does not change unless you change the sensitivity setting which is the ISO, changing from ISO 200 to ISO 400 change the amount of light needed by 1/2, change from ISO 200 to ISO 800 the amount of light needed is 1/4 of what it was at ISO 200

The correct exposure is determined by the F stop and Shutter speed. If you stop down the lens on step you have to double the time of the shutter to keep the amount of light the same.

Try this link for an interactive demo of what I just tried to say:
http://dryreading.com/camera/index.html