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I am in a well lit room and for some reason I cant get my camera to take pictures without the flash. When I do take them they show up as black. How do I adjust the Exposure comp./ AEB setting? 
My photos are becoming very delayed. I used to never have a problem with taking photos on the manual setting and now for some reason the camera is taking very delayed photos. There is no timer on it so im not sure whats going on. Its in MF, with the ...