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Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
You can adjust overall image brightness.
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
•
If the setting is applied in
j
,
k
, or
l
mode, it will remain saved in the camera’s memory
even after the camera is turned off.
•
Exposure compensation cannot be used in the following shooting modes:
- When scene mode (
33) is set to
Fireworks show
,
Multiple exp. Lighten
, or
Night
sky (150 minutes)
or
Star trails (150 minutes)
in
Time-lapse movie
-
m
(manual) mode (
-
Manual
in
u
(Movie manual) mode
•
When the exposure compensation is set while using the built-in flash, the compensation
is applied to both the background exposure and the flash output.
•
Exposure compensation can also be set with the control ring (
174).
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)
Exposure compensation
Histogram
Guide
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