Canon XTI exposure problems

[Andrew]

O.K., there has been lots of talk about the XTI underexposing. I received mine in April. I take aviation pictures, and I seemed to notice it the first time I shot on a sunny day. I had shot with the D300 for 2 years and love that camera. But I needed an upgrade because I shoot raw all the time and needed the speed. The first time I shot with the XTI it was in evalutive mode. After reading the D300 manual I found out that if you shoot in Manual, which I always do, the metering mode is set to center-weighted metering by default. When I switched to that mode on the XTI it definitely helped on the exposure. Now I have called Canon about this (3 times) just to ask if they have heard of this, and 1 rep said he never heard of an exposure problem, 1 said he had, and the repair center in California said they never heard about it. I know you can read all kinds of stuff on different forums, which sometimes are hard to believe, but this underexposure problem is out there. Just wondering if anyone on this forum who owns an XTI has had any concerns about this.
Andrew

[brad]

I shot a wedding this weekend with Heatherlou's XTi and thought I was going crazy with exposure.. it was consistently a stop underexposed.... I finally just adjusted the exposure modifier and went with that.

I also found it way to easy to accidentally change the metering mode... but that was just my fat fingers, I think.

[Jim Victory]

I have an XTi and the exposure is dead on in evaluative mode. My suggestion is to just adjust as needed. If they tune it to slightly underexpose it protects the highlights. I had to adjust my 1D to -1/3 most of the time to keep from overexposing.

I have never had any 1 series cameras that didn't need exposure adjustment at some time or another. That is why you have that option available so you can adjust it to get proper exposure.

[JohnT]

I think my 30D underexposes because I have to adjust my images in PP to be a little brighter. In fact, I remember reading something about this right after getting it. Not a big deal really.