Over exposure when zooming

posted by dcboo on Jun 22, 2008

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When I zoom in with my Nikon Coolpix 4300, the F stop goes up to 4 (and change) and the shot is over exposed. Widening back out solves the problem (but I'd really like to be able to zoom in, that being the point of optical zoom). Any ideas as to what's wrong? I've tried different ISOs, resetting everything to default, nothing has helped. Is this something that can be repaired?

Comment by dcboo, posted on Jun 22, 2008

Yep, nothing seemed to help. It only seems to be a problem in natural light (i.e. outdoors on a sunny day). If I use a flash inside, the F stop still goes way up, but the exposure lighting seems fine.
Thx.

I have the same problem.

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by voodoomox, posted on Jun 22, 2008

well its like a usual output of point and shoot cameras, like what i have for outdoors, if i zoom it up to the digital limit after the optical, i get blurry images, not just by over exposure but also loose focus. mine even has image stabilizer but i sometimes get the same result specially if i dont wait for the auto-focus to trigger the stabilizer.

mines a canon a460

by voodoomox, posted on Jun 22, 2008

have you tried combining manual and automatic focus settings to diff ISO's?

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posted on Jun 22, 2008

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tried this one earlier DCboo, placed the camera on a tripod then set it to half full digital zoom on auto focus (tried 4000 also), then set it to a 10 second delay facing a mountain range, its pretty clear compared to setting it to full digital zoom, seems to me that the image stabilizer on both our cameras have the same effect on digital zooms.

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posted on Jun 22, 2008

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If you want to be able to use optical zoom try getting a more advanced camera because cameras like Nikon Coolpix 4300 does`nt have quality zoom its very poor and you can see it yourself the images gets blurry when maximize your zoom.

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