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Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
When the shooting mode is set to
A
(auto) mode, scene mode, creative mode, or
short movie show mode, you can adjust the brightness (exposure compensation).
1
Press the multi selector
K
(
o
).
2
Select a compensation value and press
the
k
button.
•
To brighten the image, set a positive (+) value.
•
To darken the image, set a negative (–) value.
•
The compensation value is applied, even without
pressing the
k
button.
C
Exposure Compensation Value
•
When the shooting mode is
Fireworks show
, Night sky and Star trails in
Time-lapse
movie
, or
Multiple exp. Lighten
in scene mode, exposure compensation cannot be
used.
•
When the shooting mode is short movie show mode, the setting applied will remain
saved in the camera's memory even after the camera is turned off.
•
When the exposure compensation is set while using a flash, the compensation is applied
to both the background exposure and the flash output.
C
Using the Histogram
A histogram is a graph showing the distribution of tones in the image. Use as a guide when
using exposure compensation and shooting without the flash.
•
The horizontal axis corresponds to pixel brightness, with dark tones to the left and bright
tones to the right. The vertical axis shows the number of pixels.
•
Increasing exposure compensation value shifts tone distribution to the right, and
decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left.
Exposure Compensation (Adjusting
Brightness)
+ 2 . 0
-0.3
- 2 . 0
Exposure compensation
Histogram
Slider