EOS M50 Pics Are Too Dark

[Far-Out-Dude]

First off let me say I am not a noob at this, I understand the settings and I have read the manual. It is also doing this with all lenses and the camera was just repair by Canon not long ago and has not been used much as I had foot surgery in Sept. foot got infected and I almost lost the foot so I have not been out photographing much.

Now for some reasons lately in Manual mode my pictures are turned out very dark unless I go all the way down to 4" which is much to slow for what I am trying to shoot and it is of course causing a blurred effect. I would normally take this picture at 1200 FPS when not on a tripod but when I try to do that the picture is jet black. Settings for this are as follows.  Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens 400mm f5.6 1/200 ISO 100 No flash. I had lighting set for an overcast day. I am hoping it is just something I am forgetting because I have not been shooting much and not a problem with the lens.

Oh I put it in Aperture mode and the pictures are bright enough but it is setting ISO to 6400 every time. I have tried to reset the camera but it does not seem to be resetting as BBF is still on after I have reset the camera. I had lens brace against window of truck though not entirely steady as I could not reach the pool noodle I normally put on window and only had it on the light camera skin. Thank you for any help given.

One thing I realized I forgot to mention when I was laying in bed is if I push the shutter button halfway down everything will get brighter for just a second and then look dark again in the screen and the viewfinder.

[Far-Out-Dude]

Yes, as I said above that is it for sure, thank you much for showing it to help others as well. I mix up numbers all the time, it is worse when I am tired.

[Tronhard]

I totally understand and sympathize.  I have chemo brain myself, and I lose threads and get very, very tired. 

[Far-Out-Dude]

I pray you are getting better with that and that your prognosis is improving.

[Tronhard]

Thank you for you kind thoughts, it's in the lap of the gods... so to speak.

[ebiggs1]

Far-Out-Dude one very important thing to remember is 90% of your shots are simple snap-shots. P mode with no other adjustment will work 90% of the time. Sometimes the more advanced guys on this forum can't see that fact. This causes newer to photography people to over think a simple situation. When you run into those more rare conditions then start using special adjustments. Do the easy stuff first and there may not be any harder stuff to contend with.

[Far-Out-Dude]

Thank you much for the information. I am sorry I have not gotten those other shots yet, I am taking care of my GF who had a brain aneurysm bleed back in September and it is taking up much of my time with trying to cook and clean and get laundry to the laundry mat while trying to recover from my own medical problems and driving the Mennonite that owns the vehicle I drive as well so things are wearing me out. I am going to try to get those today, it is the first day that looks as you told me to shoot in, she just woke up and I have to make sure she and the dog are taken care of first. They are my world.

[Far-Out-Dude]

I have shots and will load to the computer when she is done with her movie. (We stream this service from the PC)

[Far-Out-Dude]

I did what I could to get different colors. shapes and lighting conditions. Hope this helps.

[rs-eos]

The exposure in all of these is pretty spot on.   The first two's white balance is a bit off.

What mode were you using for these? Seems your camera is working a-ok.

[Far-Out-Dude]

Program AE as I was asked above. So not I have to figure out what to use for shooting game, I have always set to 1200FPS but for some reason lately that is so dark unless I turn the ISO up so high the picture is ruined by static, I never had that problem before which is why I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong all of a sudden. Now here comes my number problems so please forgive me, it order to get a brighter shot I have to turn it down to either 4 or 4" (Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Lens) but then it is much to slow for shooting wildlife, even my friends kid was blurry the other day, (18-55mm Lens) I do not know what I am doing wrong all of a sudden when I was having no issues before. I know my injuries and everything going on with my GF have kept me from shooting but I can't believe I am messing up that badly because of ring rust.