New lens producing dark pictures.

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Hi All,

First proper post on here other than my welcome one.... So here goes.

I just recently got myself a new Canon 1000D as my first DSLR camera. It came with the 18-55mm non IS kit lens, which I have read isn't all that great compared to it's IS brother.
So, after deliberating for hours weather I should spend my money on the 18-55mm IS lens or a 55-250mm IS lens, it got too difficult so I gave up and got both :lol:
Getting them both home and trying them out however wasn't as great as I had hoped. I took the same indoor picture with all 3 lenses at 55mm and set to auto to see what the difference would be, and to my dissappointment, the 18-55mm lens gave the worst results by quite a long way. Now I'm hoping it's something I'm doing wrong or a fault with the lens, because the non IS lens is giving better images.
The problem with the images from the IS lens is that they are too dark. It seems to me with my limited knowledge that the flash is firing either a fraction too early or a fraction too late with this particular lens. With the Non IS lens and the 55-250mm lens there is no problem, images are very well lit and crisp, but when I swap in the 18-55 IS it all changes. I have tried multiple shots using different shutter speeds and white balance but the story is the same.

Can anyone help me out? Do I have a faulty lens? If the other 2 lenses are working ok, surely there is something wrong?

Sorry for the essay, but I don't really know how else to describe the problem

Any help much appreciated, and sorry if it's a really obvious answer.

Cheers
 
firstly welcome along to a great site, being the photo guys/girls we are images will help resolve this a lot quicker ;-)
 
Thanks guys, let me get some onto my PC and I will post in a few mins.

Thanks
 
Ok, so here is one taken with the 18-55mm IS lens, as you can see the lighting is pretty awful. Settings on 1/125 F5.6 ISO Auto and using the flash...

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And this is the image taken with the 55-250mm IS lens. The image is almost identical to the NON IS 18-55mm lens, so will just post the one. It's not quite at the same angle but you get the idea. Same settings as the first picture.

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Any ideas what the problem is?
 
It's OK Graham, you haven't gone blind, I can't see any either!
 
Sorry, I can't even see them myself!! Let's try again...

18-55mm IS

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55-250mm IS

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Hope this works....

FYI I'm using the built in flash on the camera. Thanks
 
BandyQuill said:
yes there is... you have to click actions then 'view exif'
Click to expand...

Cant see it in my viewer

The problem is that ones shot at f4 and the other is f5.6 but the iso and shutter speeds are the same.

The cameras being fooled by the extra white in the second shot and under exposing on the flash
 
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Ok thanks guys, clearly there is still a lot to learn. I changed the settings to manual and set it at f5.6, shutter 1/125 and ISO 400.... The images were closer, but the 18-55mm IS was still darker than the other 2.
I will have a play around and see what happens.
Thanks again!
 
Marcellus said:
Ok thanks guys, clearly there is still a lot to learn. I changed the settings to manual and set it at f5.6, shutter 1/125 and ISO 400.... The images were closer, but the 18-55mm IS was still darker than the other 2.
I will have a play around and see what happens.
Thanks again!
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unless you mount the camera on a tripod or set the flash to manual as well, you will get different lighting because of the framing differences causing metering differances

....beat me to it Chris :)
 
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um you where using the built in flash? looks to me like it didn't fire on the dark one..
 
Ahhh.. never go near the damn place, to much clicking needed to get what you want.
 
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