How do I fix the lighting on my camara?

Question

The camara is a camedia from olympus digital camera D-460 zoom. When I try to take pics outside it comes out mostly white. Like it is take in to much light. How do I fix it.

Answer 1

While answer #2 is pretty much correct, if you find that you're NOT in a "manual" mode, but it still has the problem, you may have accidentally set it for exposure compensation. Look through the menus and see if something is set for +.3, +.5, +.7, +1, +1.5, that sort of thing. Conversely, if you found it was set for minus one of those numbers, the picture would probably come out too dark. Sometimes the exposure compensation is marked +/-, sometimes it uses the letters E.V. You might also be in the mode that has a little person with a sun over their shoulder, which means it's adjusting for backlight (usually 1.5, or a stop and a half).

Also, if you know how to turn the flash off, try shooting without flash indoors (but in a bright place). If you have the same problem, it's probably something like what I said above.

I don't know the camera, but it's possible that it's not metering through the lens, but that it has a light sensor somewhere on the body. Make sure your fingers aren't covering anything on the front of the camera that looks like a little lens of any sort.

Lastly, your lens might be really dirty and you're catching light on the dirt particles. Try shooting in such a way that there is no direct sunlight on the lens (a good rule in general--usually, you want to avoid glare).

If you're still stumped, I suppose there might be something wrong with the camera.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

First, get your Owner's Manual and read thru it. It sounds as though you have it in Manual Mode. Get it back in Auto Mode so the camera sets aperture (f-stop) and shutter speed.

I must now correct gpibambam's statements concerning shutter speed and f-stops.Correct exposure is a product of shutter speed, available light, f-stop and ISO setting.

Look at this hypothetical example with the camera in Aperture Preferred Mode (you set the aperture, camera sets the shutter speed) in bright daylight with an ISO of 200.

f2 @ 1/1000
f2.8 @ 1/500
f4 @ 1/250
f5.6 @ 1/125
f8 @ 1/60
f11 @ 1/30
f16 @ 1/15

All 7 of these exposures are identical. If you set your camera to Shutter Priority Mode and the shutter speed to 1/1000 the camera will select an f-stop of f2 - and so on.

The only situation in which gpibambam is close to being right would be if you set the shutter speed manually so it could not change and then changed the f-stop.If correct exposure was 1/125 @ f5.6 and you opened up to f4 - while holding the shutter at 1/125 your exposure would be light. At f2.8 it would be even lighter. If you change to f8, the exposure would be darker whlie holding the shutter at 1/125; at f11 it would be still darker.

Answer 3

if youre in a manual mode (M, A, S are the letters for em) then its either because your fstop is too high or your shutter speed is too low. both make the picture brighter.

or it could be that something is screwed up with the glass in the camera. so if youve dropped it or hit it against something... that could be why.

i think its more likely that the camera's fstop or shutter speed is messed with. make sure the cameras on "auto" setting.

*the lower the shutter speed, the brighter the picture, the higher (faster) the shutter speed, the darker the picture.

the lower the fstop, the brighter the picture, the higher, the darker. =D

Answer 4

I think it has something to do with the shutter speed that i know nothing about.