Exposure Compensation

Mode Auto Playback: and Photography Basic

Exposure compensation is used to alter exposure from the value suggested by the camera to make pictures brighter or darker.

1 Press o(exposure compensation).

The exposure compensation guide is displayed.

2Use the rotary multi selector to adjust

exposure and press k.

• When the subject is too dark: adjust the exposure compensation to “+” side.

• When the subject is too bright: adjust the exposure

 

compensation to “–” side.

Exposure compensation

•Exposure compensation can be set to values between –2.0 and +2.0 EV.

•The monitor will return to the normal display for the current mode if the setting is not applied by pressing kwithin a few seconds.

3The setting is applied.

The value is displayed with the Hicon in the monitor.

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CExposure Compensation Value

If the exposure compensation value is adjusted in any scene mode or one-touch portrait mode, the setting reverts to 0.0 whenever another shooting mode is selected or the camera is turned off.

DUsing Exposure Compensation

The camera tends to lower exposure when the frame is dominated by brightly lit objects and to increase exposure when the frame is mostly dark. Positive compensation may therefore be required to capture the brilliancy of very bright objects that fill the frame (for example, sunlit expanses of water, sand, or snow) or when the background is much brighter than the main subject. Negative compensation may be called for when large areas of the frame contain very dark objects (for example, a swath of dark green leaves) or when the background is much darker than the main

34subject.