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Advanced Operations
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Setting Exposure Compensation
Exposure compensation is used to alter the camera’s standard exposure setting to make the
picture brighter (overexposure) or darker (underexposure). Exposure compensation can be set
up to ±2 stops, in 1/2-stop increments.
1Set the Quick Control Dial switch
to 〈ON〉.
2Focus on the subject, then check
the exposure level.
●Press the shutter button down halfway and
check the display. ( )
3Select the exposure.
●Turn the 〈〉dial.
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Turn the 〈〉dial while pressing the shutter
button down halfway, or within ( )
seconds of pressing the shutter button
down halfway.
●Positions on the [+] side indicate
overexposure, and positions on the [-] side
indicate underexposure.
●Once set, the exposure compensation
remains in memory after the Main Switch is
set to 〈OFF〉.
●To cancel exposure compensation, return
the compensation setting to the standard
exposure position 〈〉.
4Take the picture.
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To prevent the 〈〉dial from turning inadvertently and changing the exposure
compensation, enter the setting and then set the Quick Control Dial switch to 〈OFF〉.
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In 〈M〉(Manual) mode, because you determine the exposure (the
combination of shutter speed and aperture) yourself, the exposure compensation
function does not operate.
You can set the camera so that you can set the exposure compensation amount in
1/3-stop increments. (C.Fn-4 →124)
Underexposure
Overexposure