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Elysiana:
It's all in the link to the thread I posted... details, photo examples, test series and such.

It's a Canon 10D, purchased in 2003. I use M as much as possible. I can't go over ISO400 or they come out terrible, but any lower than 400 and everything seems to be too low-light. One person on there thinks that my lightmeter may have a problem because I'm having to compensate so much; another thinks it's working just fine and it's my lens; another thinks I'm just using the wrong camera settings altogether... nobody seems to agree on any one thing.

Mostly I just want someone to let me know what I can tell my employers as far as why it's shitty of them to use my camera for 3 years and just say, "Welp, thanks."


ETA: And I don't mean I've taken a few photos here and there for ads. I have taken thousands of photos so far, and it was already an old camera... I don't know how many actuations because that model doesn't save that info, but I am fairly certain it was above at least 25k when I started here, and they say the 10D's shutter usually lasts through about 50k actuations.

pwhodges:
I only read the other thread after writing my reply, which was silly, I guess; but it all seems to be said there.  I would add to my comment about settings that most cameras (I don't know yours) have menu adjustments for sharpening/smoothing and noise reduction, which if changed might also relate to some of the comments in the other thread.  My suggestion to try shooting raw is serious, because it bypasses most of the camera's processing and settings, just as shooting manually bypasses the exposure stuff - even better if you can borrow a separate meter, and maybe learn to do incident light measurement (this was an absolute basic before so much got built into cameras; can you recall pictures of photographers with an assistant waving a meter around in front of the subject?).

Elysiana:
I used to shoot RAW at least occasionally but got away from it with this project because I needed to be able to quickly send files to people and I didn't want to deal with converting... and with only have a 512MB card, RAW+JPG fills it up way too fast. I may have to test it in RAW though. I have a friend who is a photographer but I don't know how much equipment she really has; perhaps she has a lightmeter I can borrow though. If she shoots Canon she might even have a separate lens I can try, to narrow that down. Dude on the POTN forum seemed to think the kit lens is just completely shitty, but I've been using it since I got the camera and have never noticed this before.

I just don't think I've ever had to do this much post-processing. I know it's been a while since I've taken a class (and hell, that was with a film camera) but I don't think I've forgotten how to take a photo entirely... though as I mentioned, it IS possible lol.

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