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Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness
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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 Exposure compensation press the k button. +2.0 • To brighten the image, set a positive (+) value. +0.3 • To darken the image, set a negative (-) value. -2.0 • The compensation value is applied, even without pressing the k button. • When the shooting mode is smart portrait Histogram mode, the glamour retouch screen is displayed instead of the exposure compensation screen (A34). • When the shooting mode is A (auto) mode, the creative slider is displayed instead of the exposure compensation screen (A42). C Exposure Compensation Value The setting may not be available with some shooting modes (A48). 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 shifts tone distribution to the right, and decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left. Shooting Features 47