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3.
Use the Direction pad to navigate to
LCD brightness
and press the
>
key on the Direction pad to select it.
4.
Use the
%
and
"
keys on the Direction pad to select a
brighter or darker display. You’ll see a swatch of
patches from black to white to help you assess your
adjustment. You should see
every
ramp position in the
swatches; if the two whitest swatches blend together,
the brightness is too high, while if the two darkest
swatches blend together, the brightness is too low.
You’re looking for the setting that allows you to distinguish the
extreme dark (left) and extreme bright (right) patches at the same
time. This setting is possibly a bit dark for bright light (it looks fine
in dim light, actually; the screen capture is hiding the black in
ways I don’t see directly).
5.
Press the
>
key on the Direction pad or the
OK
button
to confirm your choice.
Novice DSLR users have a tendency to “crank up” the
brightness of the color LCD. Moreover, they rely upon it too
much to make visual assessments of the photo they just took.
Unfortunately, both of these things are wrong.
