Canon S100 Video

[rickthompson]

Anyone gotten good video results with the S100? I bought it primarily for stills but have been experimenting with video lately. Love the video quality, but as soon as I take it underwater the light meter goes crazy and overexposes everything. I've gotten some cool shoots on wrecks with more diffuse ambient light but blue water seems to really confuse it...

Anyone have a solution for this ?

 

[Interceptor121]

Strange. It should not happen unless you point the camera into the sunball. Exposure lock works wonders

 

[pariah99]

I've not had problems with the S100. Unless you have a ton of blown highlights, it's relatively simple to correct overexposure in any video editing package.

Scuba in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 12.30.2012 - YouTube

Here's a side by side that I made of the before/after of corrections I applied:

Scuba Color Correction (Blue Water) - YouTube

 

[rickthompson]

I wasn't aware there was exposure lock for video on the S100? That would work wonders...how do you engage it?

 

[Interceptor121]

If it is like the S95 you can press half shutter and up arrow then you can change with a dial the level of exposure

 

[CT Sean]

There is and if I remember correctly (sorry don't have time to read the manual - but it's in there) you have to be in movie mode and you use the rear dial to adjust it I think you press up first, then rotate - something like that. That may be exposure compensation for video (which may also suit your needs) for the record my S100 films are all a 1/3 - 2/3 or so over exposed as well.

EDIT - the above process is correct. it appears so be exposure comp + exposure lock. you press up to bring up the "meter", then rotate (you must rotate, you cannot click left or right) to increase or decrease exposure. then, when you actually press the movie record button, the exposure appears to be locked as that setting.

Edit again - You may have out this together already but that means you can only adjust this if you have a housing that allows rear dial control. In a Canon or Ikelite housing you can still use the exposure lock, but it can only be locked in the "0 exposure compensation" setting (which i guess is better than nothing)