Oversaturation?

[Nalgene Ninja]

I've been having a problem w/ my digital camera for a few months now. If I take a pic in bright sunlight, the pic and several subsequent pics are very dark, almost black. Sometimes post-processing w/ Adobe Photoshop Elements can almost return the pics to near normal color but half the time its too dark even for that. Should I send this camera back?

[cwhiker]

Sounds to me like the light meter in the camera is getting fooled or is not working right. can you upload an example please

[Joshua Szulecki]

Okay... A few questions...

1) What kind of camera, brand and model.
2) What mode/settings are you using.
3) Can you post examples? Please include ANY information you have about the photograph as well.

[Nalgene Ninja]

Okay... A few questions...

1) What kind of camera, brand and model.
2) What mode/settings are you using.
3) Can you post examples? Please include ANY information you have about the photograph as well.

1. Fuji Finepix s1000fd
2. Auto
3. This pic and several after it were the same and it takes about 1/2 hour for it to return to normal. It only happens when taken outside in full sun and torward the sun.
 

Oversaturation?

[Joshua Szulecki]

Hmm...

The reviews complain about minor underexposure, but this is ridiculous.

Based on the Amazon reviews, at least a few people have complained of the exact same problem in AUTO mode.

While it doesn't directly address the problem, updating the firmware might help. Fuji has released a firmware update that supposedly fixes the following problem: "The brightness of the captured images when “EVF/LCD mode” is set to “60fps” is darker than that set to “30f/s”." The first option would be to set the EVF/LCD mode to 30f/s and see if that helps, otherwise you might want to try the firmware update, but follow the directions VERY carefully.

http://www.fujifilm.com/p...ownload/s1000fd/fupd.html

But, many reviewers said something like: "AUTO mode produced far below average picture exposure." So you might need to learn to operate in other modes, and see if that helps, too. Sorry man, not much on this one...how long have you had it?