 Lynn Marie Coffren |
Canon A530 photos have weird dark spot in corner
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Stephanie M. Stevens |
To me it kind of looks like someone got their finger in the way of the flash :) But I could be wrong.
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Lynn Marie Coffren |
At first I thought the same thing and kept changing the way I held the camera, but it still keeps showing up. Could it be the lighting in the room maybe? LOL I'm just throwing out guesses at this point. :)
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Stephanie M. Stevens |
Does this happen with pictures of far away subjects too? In your example it looks like maybe the lens is blocking the flash and creating a shadow.
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Lynn Marie Coffren |
Yep, it's happening on everything. I used the camera for about 4 days with no problems. I did figure out one thing - I tried to take pictures during the day this time, that was the only difference. All of my other photos have been taken with the object under fluorescent light. Today I tried taking photos with flash and normal daylight and this started happening.
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Stephanie M. Stevens |
Is there something on the glass of the lens? It's not an SLR right?
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W. |
It looks like it's a shadow of the extended lens itself. Fits exactly relative to the position of the flash in the camera.
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Lynn Marie Coffren |
Don't know what an SLR is...? If it's a shadow from the lens, is there any way to counterbalance it, maybe more lighting on the object or something?
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W. |
If it's the shadow from the lens, the 'weird dark spot' will be be biggest at your most wide angle setting. So, if you step back a bit and zoom in a bit to compensate the shadow should soon disappear.
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Jon Close |
This type of shadow is due to the combination of the lens being fully extended and the subject being very close. If you have the camera on a tripod you will be able to see how this is happening by extending a string from the flash to just right of the subject. At close focus distances the string (light from the flash) is going to intersect with the lens. See if setting a wider-ange on the lens (less extended from the body) will solve the problem. Otherwise you'll need a 2nd slave flash set up on the other side to fill in that shadow.
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