Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness) - Nikon Coolpix L840 Reference Manual

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 set to smart
portrait mode, glamour retouches are
displayed (A35).
• When the shooting mode is set to A (auto) mode, the creative slider is
displayed (A41).
C
Exposure Compensation Value
The setting may not be available with some shooting modes (A48).
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 shifts tone distribution to the right, and
decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left.
Exposure compensation
+ 2 . 0
+ 0 . 3
- 2 . 0
Histogram
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