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Permalink Reply by Nathan Moody on May 27, 2017 at 10:54pm

Ugh, I hate being That Guy who answers his own question. But just in case others run across this and didn't know...

Turns out the Live View mode on all Canon cameras is auto-exposure based on where the focus/zoom frame is (that little white box on the Live View screen). If it's centered, the exposure will more or less be the same as the captured image; I had mine all the way in a corner for pulling focus on an odd part of a shot...which is an old habit from live shooting days, there's no real reason to need to do that while shooting tethered with Dragonframe.

Whew...still have hours of work to recover but now I'm back on track. Sorry for the mental spasm.

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Permalink Reply by John Lewis on May 30, 2017 at 4:45pm

There is a setting on some canons, in the menu on the camera,
called... (My camera is flat so I can't look it up)... But it's something like 'match exposure' or 'exposure simulation'.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Moody on May 30, 2017 at 5:19pm

Thanks for your reply, John. Exposure Simulation is the feature and it just skews the offset in a different direction. Doesn't work consistently, although it's better, but that doesn't affect the fact that the live view's exposure is always dependent on where the focus frame is, which in turn means it's always in a wonky auto exposure mode. See my previous post.

Dragonframe does seem to make this widget that seems to address this issue. I'm tempted to give it a whirl.

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