Elephant Plains is our only problem left, although we are still some way off to getting it back - no ETA yet
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Trying to catch the autumn colours I have been out photographing quite a lot, but ........ my pics look so washed out. There are not the brilliant bright colours like I see on the trees.

Can it be that my memory card is overutilized? Can anything like this happen? I have photographed thousands of photos.

This year the colours are just spectacular and every time I download my pics, I'm faced with the colourless, tired pics.

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It doesn't sound as though you have a problem with equipment. A failing memory card would give errors on your screen instead of photos Smiling A faulty camera would also give other errors.

 It actually seems like a white balance problem. The camera's auto white balance doesn't work in all situations. In the case of autumn pictures, possibly the sky was overcast too, this is a common case. Do you have other settings for white balance ? If so, try using the "cloudy" setting, that will warm up all the colours, or even the "shade" setting, which will warm them up even more. A little extra exposure would help too, try setting exposure compensation to +1

 

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Brian

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Thanks for answering, never thought of it. Maybe I should take my cam to a shop to have it looked over?

Only problem is, I go on holiday in two days. Sad

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Could it be that the aperture is worn out? In other words, letting too much light in? I'm not sure that's something worth repairing....perhaps a new camera is in order!

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