William Kazak
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What brand is your camera? What model? Do you have a manual?Yeah, thanks to all who came up with ideas. I just returned it. My first return in, er, probably decades. I usually just "sell forward". Seller was not happy, and tried to fight it (dumbass) but he has already re-listed it, even though he hasn't received the return yet.
I will try and buy another one in a while. Meanwhile, back to using the old one. So OK, I guess some of you might have ideas on this: maybe I can fix the one I have.
The issue is that I have it set completely manual (ISO, WB, exposure settings), and I use the thumbwheel on the back to ratchet the exposure up and down a notch or few. Nothing else changes.
All of a sudden (this issue raised it's head after the camera unused for a while and the battery fully discharged when I was moving house), it began trying to override my manual exposure settings, ALWAYS switching my manual setting to one that was consistently overexposed. Very aggravating. If I move the thumbwheel slowly, it is more likely I will be able to get the setting correct, but if I move it quickly, it will always try to overexpose. It kinda jumps back to an overexposed setting. Sometimes it takes me two or three attempts to slowly nudge back to a correct exposure.
It's almost as though I have some kind of setting enabled that I am unaware of that is overriding or bracketing, but AFAIK nothing is set to be automatic at all. And if it's set on M for manual, shouldn't all automatics be disabled? What could it be?
Any ideas/insight gratefully received.