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Auto ISO compensation in Manual mode making photos grainy. (alien.top)

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I shoot in full manual mode and adjust everything myself. I always intentionally keep my ISO as low as possible at 100 or 200 as anything higher than 400 on my camera makes them totally grainy. I have a canon m50 Mark ii. So it makes beautiful photos, but not when the ISO is so high. I have googled why the ISO keeps randomly jumping up (I reviewed my photos today and it jumped to 1250 and up to 800 and 600, without me pressing it).

I found an article that this is called exposure compensation with ISO Auto, so it is compensating the exposure by auto bumping the ISO when I am checking the exposure index (the little bar where the exposure should be centred).

I sometimes use the dial to help make sure my exposure is in the middle and I'm not taking photos too bright or dark. How do I use this feature without it accidentally bumping my ISO into the thousands and ruining potentially great photos?

Does anyone disable this Auto ISO compensation or do you just not use the exposure dial to help you adjust brightness? I found the reference Here I thought it was super handy but, not when it bumps my ISO out of the park. Thanks!!

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