Olympus CAMEDIA C-5060 wide zoom Reference Manual page 177

During shooting and playback, you can display a histogram showing the
brightness and contrast of your subject in the monitor You can also display
the black and white areas directly on the image.
Checking the histogram during shooting enables precise exposure control
During playback, you can display a histogram showing the brightness and
contrast of recorded pictures
The histogram dispIay can be set separateIy for shooting mode and
pIayback mode.
OFF The histogram is not displayed
[] ON The histogram is displayed when [] is pressed. This function
is not available in [] mode _L_"Exposure
compensation" (P.126)
ON The histogram is always displayed.
DIRECT The black and white areas are displayed directly on the image.
Ex. Hold down [], when ON or [] ON is selected in P mode
When the image is bright When the image is dark
target mark
If the peak fills too
much of the right much of the left frame.
frame, the image will the image will appear
tD appear mostly white, mostly black.
The part indicated in green in the histogram shows the luminance distribution
within the histogram target mark.
Ex. When DIRECT is selected in P mode
Red frame: Mostly white area
Blue frame: Mostly black area
If the area contains both black and white
parts, it is displayed in the blue frame
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