Canon 40D settings advice needed

[suerob]

Not sure if I've understood the problem correctly, or if the answer can be as simple as this, but it's worth a try.

Try checking what happens when you change to exposure compensation using the Quick Control Dial, then try changing it by pressing the ISO/Flash exposure compensation button and turning the Quick Control Dial.

The setting defaults - and in getting to know the controls it took me a while to work out what I was doing wrong!

[suerob]

Not sure if I've understood the problem correctly, or if the answer can be as simple as this, but it's worth a try.

Try having a play with and see what happens when you change to exposure compensation using the Quick Control Dial, then try changing it by pressing the ISO/Flash exposure compensation button and turning the Quick Control Dial.

The setting defaults - and in getting to know the controls it took me a while to work out what I was doing wrong!

[Wilf]

Originally Posted by d70mpv

The only thing I can think that it was was that I noticed that the exposure bracketing, as has been mentioned, was set to -2 as the starting position. Changing the degree of bracketing only altered the spacing of the brackets (1/3 of a stop, 1/2 a stop, 1 stop etc) around the central -2 starting point. I couldn't actually alter the -2 starting point itself. Surely the factory default setting must be to start the bracket at 0, not -2, so somewhere, somehow I must've changed this but if I did I certainly can't remember it!

Custom function 1-5 changes the default 0,-,+ to -,0,+ when selected.

[zan]

on the 400d you can change the 'start point' of the exposure bracketing by pressing a combination of buttons and dials. I've only ever done it once by mistake, but I was paying attention enough to put it back. If it was that simple though, it'll be mentioned in your manual...

Zan

[d70mpv]

Thanks guys, it definitely seems to be a problem with where the bracketing starts. Again, "once more in the menus dear friends"