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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very
dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? Bob Williams |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
Bob Williams wrote:
When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? Bob Williams Do you have any exposure compensation set? David |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
Bob Williams writes:
When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? No, unfortunately, that's just the way the camera works. The display/ viewfinder brightness when you half press the shutter is adjusted for the chosen aperture/shutter/etc, and, with the flash in use, will be too dark until the flash goes off--which is not helpful for composition, as you've noticed. -Dave |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
Dave Sill wrote: Bob Williams writes: When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? No, unfortunately, that's just the way the camera works. The display/ viewfinder brightness when you half press the shutter is adjusted for the chosen aperture/shutter/etc, and, with the flash in use, will be too dark until the flash goes off--which is not helpful for composition, as you've noticed. -Dave Thanks for the confirmation. That's what I figured was going on. In low light, w/o flash, the settings may be f=2.8 @ 1/4 sec. When I half press the shutter, the image stays bright because the settings do not change. However, with flash, when I half press the shutter, the camera displays the subject at f=2.8 @ 1/60 sec., which of course is too dark to see what's going on. It is a real PIA. I wonder if Panny fixed that in later models. I know that David Taylor & Spouse have two later models. Maybe he can shed some light on this.....HEY! DAVE..... Bob Williams |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
David J Taylor wrote: Bob Williams wrote: When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? Bob Williams Do you have any exposure compensation set? David No! Compensation is set on "0" David, Please read my response to Dave Sill.....below and give me a heads up on how your later model FZs react to this situation. Thanks.......Bob. |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:16:03 -0700
Bob Williams wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Bob Williams writes: When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? No, unfortunately, that's just the way the camera works. The display/ viewfinder brightness when you half press the shutter is adjusted for the chosen aperture/shutter/etc, and, with the flash in use, will be too dark until the flash goes off--which is not helpful for composition, as you've noticed. -Dave Thanks for the confirmation. That's what I figured was going on. In low light, w/o flash, the settings may be f=2.8 @ 1/4 sec. When I half press the shutter, the image stays bright because the settings do not change. However, with flash, when I half press the shutter, the camera displays the subject at f=2.8 @ 1/60 sec., which of course is too dark to see what's going on. It is a real PIA. I wonder if Panny fixed that in later models. I know that David Taylor & Spouse have two later models. Maybe he can shed some light on this.....HEY! DAVE..... Bob Williams My FZ30 behaves sort of like your FZ15. In both shutter and aperture priority modes, half-pressing the shutter in a low-light situation causes the display to go dark. This happens whether the flash is enabled or not. Adjusting the shutter or aperture with the shutter release half pressed causes the display brightness to change accordingly, but is probably also messing up the exposure. In program-shift mode, half-pressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the display whether the flash is enabled or not. Shifting the exposure with the shutter half pressed causes the display brightness to change and is probably messing up the exposure. This camera has a control for display brightness in the menus. Perhaps that could be used to compensate for a too-dim display in low-light situations. I'm pretty sure that's one of the things they added in the FZ30, so it may not help you with your camera. Paul Allen |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
Bob Williams wrote:
David J Taylor wrote: Bob Williams wrote: When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? Bob Williams Do you have any exposure compensation set? David No! Compensation is set on "0" David, Please read my response to Dave Sill.....below and give me a heads up on how your later model FZs react to this situation. Thanks.......Bob. That's why I asked. IIRC, in a low-light situation recently, with the FZ5 if the exposure compensation was 0, the image stayed bright, but if I set a non-zero value, the image darkened. No, this is wrong, I can't reproduce this now I try. In fact, I can't quite see the logic at all on the FZ5. In one test, looking at a dark area, the viewfinder brightness was less when I used natural light than when I enabled the flash (and the indicated exposures were 1/4s for natural light and a much shorter one for flash. The Nikon 8400, with it's "gain up" viewfinder, was easier to use. Cheers, David |
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Panny FZ15 screen darkens when using flash indoors
Paul Allen wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:16:03 -0700 Bob Williams wrote: Dave Sill wrote: Bob Williams writes: When I take indoor shots in low light with flash, the screen gets very dark when I depress the shutter button. Without flash enabled, I can compose the picture in low light and see details in the screen image. Depressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the image on the LCD screen When I enable flash, I can still compose as before , but as soon as I depress the shutter button (partially or fully) the screen gets much darker and I cannot see detail or expressions on my subject's face. This is very annoying and caused me to blow a couple of important shots. Is there some setting that I can change to remedy this situation? No, unfortunately, that's just the way the camera works. The display/ viewfinder brightness when you half press the shutter is adjusted for the chosen aperture/shutter/etc, and, with the flash in use, will be too dark until the flash goes off--which is not helpful for composition, as you've noticed. -Dave Thanks for the confirmation. That's what I figured was going on. In low light, w/o flash, the settings may be f=2.8 @ 1/4 sec. When I half press the shutter, the image stays bright because the settings do not change. However, with flash, when I half press the shutter, the camera displays the subject at f=2.8 @ 1/60 sec., which of course is too dark to see what's going on. It is a real PIA. I wonder if Panny fixed that in later models. I know that David Taylor & Spouse have two later models. Maybe he can shed some light on this.....HEY! DAVE..... Bob Williams My FZ30 behaves sort of like your FZ15. In both shutter and aperture priority modes, half-pressing the shutter in a low-light situation causes the display to go dark. This happens whether the flash is enabled or not. Adjusting the shutter or aperture with the shutter release half pressed causes the display brightness to change accordingly, but is probably also messing up the exposure. In program-shift mode, half-pressing the shutter has no effect on the brightness of the display whether the flash is enabled or not. Shifting the exposure with the shutter half pressed causes the display brightness to change and is probably messing up the exposure. This camera has a control for display brightness in the menus. Perhaps that could be used to compensate for a too-dim display in low-light situations. I'm pretty sure that's one of the things they added in the FZ30, so it may not help you with your camera. Paul Allen Guess I'll have to RTFM again and see if there is something I'm missing. Thanks to all for your feedback. Bob Williams |
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