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EXPOSURE CONTROL
EXPOSURE PREVIEW
The brightness of the screen image mirrors the effects of the select-
ed exposure settings when pressing and holding the shutter button
on the first pressure point. That allows an assessment the effect of
the relevant exposure setting on the image before taking the photo.
This will apply as long as the subject brightness and the set expo-
sure don't result in excessively low or high brightness values.
This function can be disabled for the manual exposure setting (M).
Factory setting:
P-A-S-M
▸
Select
in the main menu
Live View Settings
▸
Select
Exposure Preview
▸
Select
(only in program AE, aperture-priority AE and shut-
P-A-S
ter-priority AE mode) or
P-A-S-M
Notes
• Depending on ambient lighting conditions, the brightness of the
screen image may differ from that of the actual images, despite
the settings described above. The screen image will appear con-
siderably darker than the – correctly exposed – picture. That is
particularly the case in long-term exposures.
• The exposure preview will also be displayed if exposure metering
is done via another control element (e.g. using the joystick, pro-
vided is was assigned the
AE-L
(also for manual setting)
function).
EXPOSURE LOCK
We often want to arrange important subject elements outside
the center of the image for reasons of pictorial composition and
these elements may sometimes be very bright or very dark. Cen-
ter-weighted metering and spot metering, however, mainly capture
an area in the center of the image and are calibrated to an average
gray scale value.
In that case, the exposure lock initially allows a metering of the
main subject, as well as storing of the relevant settings until the
final image section is set. The same applies for focusing (AF-L) in
any autofocus mode.
Usually both lock functions (focusing and exposure) are done at
the same time with the shutter button. Additionally, you can divide
the memory functions between the shutter button and the function
button, or assign both to a function button.
The functions include settings and storage.
PHOTOGRAPHY ▸ SHUTTER TYPE
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