Olympus E-500 EVOLT E-500 Advanced Manual (English) - Page 79

Exposure compensation - Varying the image brightness F In some situations, you may get better results if you manually compensate (adjust) the exposure value set automatically by the camera. In many cases, bright subjects (such as snow) will turn out darker than their natural colors. Adjusting toward + makes these subjects closer to their real shades. For the same reason, adjust toward - when shooting dark subjects. The exposure can be adjusted in range of ±5.0 EV. -2.0EV ±0 +2.0EV Exposure, image and color 1 While holding down the F (exposure Adjust toward - Adjust toward + compensation) button, rotate the control dial to set compensation value. Control dial 6 • Adjust toward +: up to +5.0 EV Adjust toward -: up to -5.0 EV • The EV step interval can be selected from 1/3EV, 1/2EV or 1EV. g "EV step" (P. 123) • You can the change control dial's functionality so that exposure compensation can be set using the control dial only without pressing the F button. g "Customizing the control dial's function" (P. 127) F button Viewfinder Exposure compensation value 79