Tip: Choosing the Black Point, White Point, and Mid-Point

Adjusting brightness: To make the image brighter, move the mid-point to the left. Moving the mid-point to the right makes the image darker.

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Correcting exposure: If the image is

 

overexposed, move the black point

 

to the right until it lines up with the

 

darkest pixel in the histogram (see

 

right). If the image is underexposed,

 

move the white point to the left until

 

it lines up with the brightest pixel.

 

You can then move the mid-point left

Correcting overexposure

or right to adjust brightness.

 

Increasing contrast: To increase contrast, align the black point and white point with the darkest and brightest pixels as shown at right. You can then move the mid-point left or right to adjust brightness.

Cautions

Level compensation is available only with still images taken using this camera body. It is not available with movies or pictures taken using M-Cont Plus. The desired results may not be achieved with monochrome images.

Level compensation can be applied multiple times, however, the quality of the image will be degraded each time by recompression.

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170543, GXR, 170553 specifications

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