In bright conditions it seems like the highlights are way over exposed. Is this normal when I go -1 on EV it looks much better. Are the conditons just too bright and its trying to find a happy medium between the shadows and the highlights. If so it still seems over exposed. Is this normal or is the sensor bad?

There's nothing wrong with your camera.
It's meter exposes for the average of the scene.
If you shoot a scene which is largely dark with smaller bright parts, the bright parts will be overexposed.
When working with tricky cenes that aren't average, you need to be the brains and adjust the exposure compensation to get the exposure you want.
Or you can use AEB to bracket your shots and get more exposure options to choose from.

Hi there. Thank you for reaching out. In an environment with a large light ratio, the camera is unable to perform accurate metering and judge the shutter value, which will result in photos that are too bright or too dark. A camera cannot overcome this problem as the human eye can.


Large light ratio: There are very bright areas and very dark areas in the shooting environment, such as in early morning or dusk, streets at noon, and rainy days. When shooting large scenes in these environments, the photos are often too bright or too dark. In addition, during close-up shooting, the transparent parts in view, such as windows and doors, are also environments with a large light ratio, so the photos are likely to be too bright or too dark.)

In auto mode, camera metering is to judge an exposure value that the camera deems accurate, that is, shutter value, based on the light of the whole shooting view in combination with the aperture, ISO, and other values set by the user. However, this value is not necessarily accurate. For example, if 40% of the area in the view are dark and 60% is of normal brightness, the camera may deem that the view is very dark, and use a slow shutter to enhance exposure. As such, the original bright areas in view will be too bright, resulting in a loss of details in most areas. The same is true for areas that are too dark. The main reason is that the camera cannot accurately apply and evaluate metering to achieve accurate exposure in an environment of a large light ratio.

In an environment with a large light ratio, make sure to sacrifice some parts to ensure accurate exposure of other parts. For example, to shoot sunrises and sunsets, the exposure accuracy of the ground can be sacrificed to ensure accurate exposure of the sky, because the sky color and exposure are the key targets at this moment, and ground underexposure is usually acceptable.



2. Parameter setting failure will also cause the view to be too bright or too dark. Several parameters will affect the brightness of a view, such as aperture, shutter, ISO, and exposure compensation



The effect of any one of the three parameters is introduced assuming that the other parameters are fixed.

The larger the aperture, the more light intake and the brighter the view.

The smaller the aperture, the lesser the light intake and the darker the view.

The higher the ISO, the stronger the exposure capability and the brighter the view.

The lower the ISO, the weaker the exposure capability and the darker the view.

The higher the exposure compensation, the brighter the view.

The lower the exposure compensation, the darker the view.


Hope this helps. Thank you for your continued support.

DJI Paladin Posted at 9-26 18:28
Hi there. Thank you for reaching out. In an environment with a large light ratio, the camera is unable to perform accurate metering and judge the shutter value, which will result in photos that are too bright or too dark. A camera cannot overcome this problem as the human eye can.

Good luck to the OP trying to understand that.

Labroides Posted at 9-26 20:20
Good luck to the OP trying to understand that.

Yeah, I doubt that.