PLAYBACK

Displaying the Histogram

The following procedure displays a histogram of an image's luminance components. The histogram is a tool you can use to check the exposure of an image.

1.Align the POWER/Function Switch with PLAY.

2.Use [] and [] to display the image whose histogram you want to view.

3.Press SET/DISP a number of times until the histogram appears.

•See "Changing the Contents of the Monitor Screen" on page E-27 for information about how the monitor screen contents change when you press the SET/ DISP button.

Histogram

4.Use [] and [] to scroll to another image if you want.

5.To exit the histogram, press SET/DISP a num- ber of times.

IMPORTANT!

•The histogram does not appear during movie play- back (page E-101).

•In the case of a panorama image (page E-102), the histogram is displayed for the first image of the pan- orama only.

•Use of the flash or multi-metering, as well as certain shooting conditions can cause the histogram to indi- cate exposure that is different from the actual expo- sure of the image when it was recorded.

About the histogram...

The histogram is a graph of pixel luminance levels in terms of the number of pixels. The vertical axis represents the number of pixels, while the horizontal axis represents lumi- nance. The information on the histogram can be used when correcting or editing the image to determine whether image details include enough shadows (left side) midtones (cen- ter), or highlights (right side). The histogram also makes it easy to visualize the color tone range of an image, which makes it a valuable reference tool when touching up the im- age.

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