The image was not made any darker with the filter "out", so it must not be working.
That didn't strike me at all, or I might have thought the same thing
the effective aperture is narrower when you zoom the lens.
This is very interesting.
I played around with the aperture settings and found something a bit strange:
- I set the aperture override to OFF and:
- The camera sets it to F2.7
- I set the aperture override to 16.00 and:
- The camera sets it to F8.0
- The photo is darker than the previous one
So I think, hmm maybe the ND filter is being deployed and the camera is pretending that the ND filter makes it F8.0?
So I set the CHDK ND filter override to "
Out" and try again, and I get
exactly the same results!
Aperture override: Off
Aperture value used by camera: F2.7
Shutter speed: 1/10
ND filter override: OutAperture override: 16.00
Aperture value used by camera: F8.0
Shutter speed: 1/10
ND filter override: OutAm I missing something here?
Update: I'm very confused.
Taking photos without aperture override (auto-set to F2.7) and WITH the ND filter yields exactly the same results as an aperture override of 16.0 (auto-set to F8.0).
This leads me to believe that the camera is for some reason trying to fool me into believe it can set the aperture to values that it actually cant, while simply using the ND filter.
Or CHDK is fooling the camera into believing that it can do things it can't?