A7s Monitor Exposure Inaccurate. Do I have a faulty camera?

markugly

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Hey guys, first time post here, but I haven't gotten a lot of useful information from reading everyone else's posts, so thank you!

I'm running into this problem that my monitor (and viewfinder) are giving me inaccurate exposure readings. So when I look over my footage on my computer, things are starting to look blown out and overexposed when I KNOW it didn't look like that when I shot it. I shoot weddings, so it's a lot of run-n-gun stuff in harsh lighting a lot of the time, so checking my histogram isn't always my first go-to since I'm more focused on not missing any crucial moments. The majority of the time I just go off of what I see, but now it's starting to give me issues since switching from my Canon 5D mk ii to the A7s.

So here's my question: Is anyone else noticing exposure inaccuracies on their camera? Am I working with a faulty camera?

Here's a couple screen grabs from my computer and from the back of the camera. Sorry for the cell phone quality, but it should give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

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You can see in his white shirt especially that there's quite a shift.

Let me know what you guys think! And thanks in advance.
 

You're a smart man. I did some googling with what you said and it looks like Macs don't do well with AVCHD, so I guess the quick and easy fix is to leave your input levels at 0-255, but change your output levels to 15-235. I tested it out in Premiere with the Fast Color Corrector and it seems to work! Fairly quick and easy, but dumb that I'm having to deal with this at all.

Thanks Reel, you saved me some headaches!!
 
could you guys elaborate on 0-255 vs 15-235? is this only in PR or is it something i can do in fcpx? avchd or xavcs?
 
Oh my god, I had same problems, especially with flat profiles on clouds, looks like a magic trick !

Thanx a lot markugly
 
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