Using exposure compensation

In difficult lighting conditions, you can use Exposure Compensation to override the automatic exposure setting that the camera makes. Exposure Compensation settings range from -3.0EV (Exposure Value) to reduce the exposure of the image (darkening it), to +3.0 EV to increase the exposure of the image (brightening it).

By default, Exposure Compensation is set to 0 (zero) and no indication is given on the active display. When Live View is turned on and you press

the

buttons on the Controller

,

a meter appears in the middle of the active display, and the Exposure Compensation value is shown on the bottom of the display.

When you have not changed Exposure Compensation for

2 seconds, the meter disappears, but the value remains at the bottom of the screen flanked by arrows (unless it has been set to 0).

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