Leica Digilux 2, Instructions Manual

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• The corresponding sub-menu appears. It contains a
scale from +2 to -2 EV with
1
/
3
EV increments and a
digital display, that, together with the yellow mark,
indicate your setting.
• After setting, the original viewfinder/monitor
screen appears again with an indication of the
activated function and the compensation value
l (2.1.23).
Note: The
EV
button is used to set several kinds of
functions. They scroll through in an endless loop and
can therefore be selected by repeatedly pressing the
button.
Taking photographs with automatic exposure
bracketing -
k
Many attractive subjects are very rich in contrast, i. e.
they have both very light and very dark areas. The
resulting effect can be quite different, depending on
which sections you base your exposure on. In such
cases, you can use automatic exposure bracketing to
produce several alternatives with graduated exposure.
You can then select the most appropriate picture for
further use.
Three graduations are available:
1
/
3
,
2
/
3
and 1 EV, as
well as 2 numbers of pictures: 3 or 5.
Exposures are in the following sequence: correct
exposure, under exposure, over exposure; with 5
pictures there are 2 additional exposures with inter-
mediate values in the corresponding sequence.
Notes:
• Automatic exposure bracketing is not possible with
video (
ü
) and sound (
w
) recordings, or in conjunc-
tion with flash mode. If the flash unit is turned on,
only one picture is taken. The same applies to
pictures with raw data storage and to series of
5 pictures with the highest resolution (
2560 ) and
the lowest compression rate (
n
).
• Depending on the available shutter speed/aperture
combination, the working range of the automatic
exposure bracketing can be limited.
• An bracketing series is only ever activated for a
single process, i. e. to repeat it, you have to set it
again.
Setting the function
Press the EV button (1.23) twice and follow the
further menu instructions.
• The corresponding sub-menu appears. It contains a
scale from -1 to +1 EV with
1
/
3
EV increments, in
which the yellow marks indicate your setting, as
well as two symbols for series of 3 and 5 pictures.
The desired graduation is set with the central
setting dial (1.29), the number by pressing up on
the direction pad (1.30).
• After setting, the original viewfinder/monitor
screen appears again with an indication of the
activated function
k
(2.1.26).
Note: The EV button is used to set several kinds of
functions. They scroll through in an endless loop and
can therefore be selected by repeatedly pressing the
button.