User manual

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Shooting Features
Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
You can adjust overall image brightness.
1 Press the multi selector K (o).
2 Select a compensation value and press
the k button.
• To brighten the image, set a positive (+) value.
• To darken the image, set a negative (–) value.
• The compensation value is applied, even without
pressing the k button.
• When the shooting mode is smart portrait mode,
the glamour retouch screen is displayed instead of
the exposure compensation screen (A43).
• When the shooting mode is A (auto) mode, the
creative slider is displayed instead of the exposure compensation screen (A29).
C Exposure Compensation Value
When the shooting mode is Multiple exp. Lighten (A34) or Fireworks show (A35)
scene mode, exposure compensation cannot be used.
C Using the Histogram
A histogram is a graph showing the distribution of tones in the image. Use as a guide when
using exposure compensation and shooting without the flash.
• The horizontal axis corresponds to pixel brightness, with dark tones to the left and bright
tones to the right. The vertical axis shows the number of pixels.
• Increasing exposure compensation value shifts tone distribution to the right, and
decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left.
Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
Exposure compensation
+2.0
+0.3
-2.0
Histogram