Nikon D700 and Metering

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Ok I have just got a Nikon D700 used with 1100 shots on it.

I have taken some images in and around the house and garden using a mix of AIs lens and an AF-D which all seemed OK.

However I went out last night with a AF-D onboard and pointed the camera across a ploughed field whihc had a bright blue sky with lots of broken cloud.

The horizon would have been roughly across the middle and i was using Aperture prority (which is what I normally use), the camera was using, I think, matrix metering but when I took the shot and looked at the back of the camera the image was virtually completly blown out like almost 3-4 stops over exposure. No Active D lighting was set.

So take the camera back?
Try some differnet settings?
RTFM the manual more?
Or is there an issue with the D700 over exposing images in bright light?
 
its difficult to know with out being there, but a ploughed feild will not reflect much light at all. so the camera was probably wanting to set a long expsoure inorder to pull detail out of the bottom of the frame.

If you managed to get a proper exsposure of the sky the ground would probably be black
 
Hi Stu

OK fair enough I would expect the exposure to be a little tricky for the cmaera to handle but considering how powerful there metering and computing power of this thing is I was really suprised for the image to look like I had pointed it directly at the sun. Nearly the whole image was blown out.

My old FA would have done better with its 4 segment AMP/Matrix metering
 
Did you change the metering mode and shoot the shot again...?

Spot meter on the ground and then the sky to see what that did...?

Any exposure compensation dialed in...?
 
Sounds like the aperture diaphragm might have stuck open.
 
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