A5000 flash overexposure

[barham]

I recently acquired a A5000 which works well with no problems except I can't seem to get the flash not to overexpose no which which shooting mode I use or flash mode.

Am I missing somethng?

Thanks,

barham

[Username]

Thaz not much to go on.  

   

To hope to solve it form so little info, any respondent

would hafta ask zillion detailed questions. Let's try it 

one question at a time ... The green mode, the PhD 

mode, should cancel any non-default customizing 

that you may have done, intentional or accidentally.   

   

If you shoot a Very Ordinary scene of very little depth, 

in the PhD mode, do you still have roughly the same

degree of over exposure [as shown in the histogram] ? 

   

Tho the above can be answered "yes" or "no", you'd 

do well to add more info, plus some example images. 

[tinplater]

I recently acquired a A5000 which works well with no problems except I can't seem to get the flash not to overexpose no which which shooting mode I use or flash mode.

Am I missing somethng?

Thanks,

barham

What of course, immediately comes to mind, is that you have flash compensation jacked up?

[Username]

What of course, immediately comes to mind, is that

you have flash compensation jacked up?

  

Could very well be that. Or not. Thaz why the

Green Mode test is Step One .... cuz it cancels 

ALL that stuff. If Green Mode exposes properly 

then it's time to chase down accidental settings 

by the user .... and certainly THE most likely of 

all errors is the very one you suggest.  

   

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Reason I'm kinda persistent about the Green 

Mode is that it's available without diving into 

the menus where some new users might even 

pile on a coupla more accidental errors. IOW, 

it's "PhD proof" :-)   

   

If there's some exception to my understanding

of the "total override" nature of the PhD [Push 

Here, Dummy] mode, I'm all ears ! My only use

of it is for video, cuz my use of video is usually  

limited to the PhD snapshot level.