Black picture

[CPH Aviation]

I took this picture two days ago from my garden. Its PIA B747-300 flying overhead. It was mid day with blue sky and sun. So why did it turn out so black?? I took it with my D100 in P mode with a 2x converter and a 28-300mm zoomlense, so thats about 900mm.

[Derf]

Re: Black picture

You can not have spaces in you filename

[CPH Aviation]

Well I found that out!

[JeffinDEN]

What meetering mode did you use? I would like to see the exif data.

[ikara]

what brand of lenes and converter?

what brand of lenes and converter?

[CPH Aviation]

Both the converter and the lense are Tamron. I've taken pictures like this before, and always with blue sky!

[CPH Aviation]

Well JeffinDEN how do I get the exif data out of the picture, when its on my harddrive on the computer??

[ckw]

Simple answer is the picture is underexposed. Either you misset the controls, or more likely atempted to use a setting outside the available range. Eg. perhaps you set a shutter speed of 1/500 which required an aperture of f4. With the convertor attached your lens can give you , say, f8 at best - result 2 stop underexposure.

Ooops - just saw you used P mode, so camera should have juggled things correctly. Possibly the convertor is "invisible" to the camera (can't sense its there) so doesn't correctly factor in the 2 stop compensation required. I have seen this happen with 3rd party lenses.

Cheers,

Colin

[JeffinDEN]

Yes, it is obviously underexposed, I would rather know what meetering mode was used. Spot, center, matrix, etc..... that is what caused the underexposure. Meetering mode is what part of the frame the camera is basing it's exposure decisions on.

[CPH Aviation]

Yes, it is obviously underexposed, I would rather know what meetering mode was used.

The meetering mode was matrix.