Digital photography

That must be some posh photo school you went to!

I went to trade school for commercial photography in Denmark, and most of the educational system is funded through government subsidies.
We had access to some pretty impressive kit.
Mind you the hasselblads were H2D's and they are pretty outdated by now.

..nice!

It was quite nice. Actually working as a commercial photographer less so.

Edinburgh.

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So I’m seriously thinking about buying another digital camera (having used pretty much film for the past few years). Previously I had a 5d and sold all that kit.

What’s the best option for me to go for? Compact (I’d imagine I can get quality to rival the 5d now right?) or should I go down the cheap dslr route?

Happy to hear all the options.
Thanks in advance.

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Thanks man. Posted there too

It was quite nice. Actually working as a commercial photographer less so.

I hear you!

A couple from today.

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Great colour on that top one!
A few phone pics; rusty fender and ice beginning to melt off a building that was next to another that burnt.

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Ace

Just got some new (old) glass for the DF.

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Wife.

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got some new (old) glass for the DF

please stop making everybody jealous!

What am I doing wrong here? The ambient light is a little over-cast, but these photographs consistently come out too dark:

It seems to be highly reflective surfaces that give the problem - other types of surface seem to be fine:

Set exposure compensation?

I use that for snaps like this:

But the cars (if they'd been non-reflective) should not have needed it, i.e. if they'd been (say) cows, the camera would have adjusted correctly (I think, I've not taken side by side cow/car pictures I admit).

= I'm wondering if I'm not aware of a "shiny surface" setting in the camera, or the focal settings menu.

You will need to provide some cow pictures.

Seriously though I have no idea what's wrong.
I know exposure compensation (and forgetting about it) is like having 'caps lock' on while typing a password, but it seemed like a simple solution (and happens to the best).
Your shiny car theory does not make much sense to me I'm afraid.

I went to a car show last summer - bright sunshine - and all the pictures came out too dark then as well.

..take off the sunglasses maybe?

From what I recall comment at the time referred to the different metering modes, spot/centre-weighted/multi/average.

I'll have a play around with those, had been set to centre-weighted.