Compensating The Exposure - Panasonic Lumix DMC-GM5 Owner's Manual For Advanced Features

5. Focus and Brightness (Exposure) Settings

Compensating the Exposure

Applicable modes:
Use this function when you cannot achieve appropriate exposure due to the difference in
brightness between the subject and the background.
1
Press the rear dial to switch to Exposure
Compensation operation.
•
Exposure Compensation value turns yellow, indicating
that the exposure can now be compensated.
2
Rotate the rear dial to compensate the
exposure.
A Exposure Compensation value.
B Exposure meter
Underexposed
Compensate the exposure
towards positive.
•
The Exposure Compensation value can be set within a range of j5 EV to i5 EV.
When recording motion pictures, the Exposure Compensation value can be set within a
range of j3 EV to i3 EV.
•
Select [0] to return to the original exposure.
•
Rotate the rear dial to display the Exposure Meter.
•
When [Auto Exposure Comp.] in [Flash] in the [Rec] menu is set to [ON], the brightness of the
flash will automatically be set to the level appropriate to the selected Exposure Compensation.
(P210)
•
When the exposure value is out of the j3 EV to i3 EV range, the brightness of the recording
screen will no longer change.
It is recommended to record by checking the actual brightness of the recorded image in the
Auto Review or playback screen.
•
The set Exposure Compensation value is stored even if the camera is turned off. (When
[Exposure Comp. Reset]
Properly exposed
(P72) is set to [OFF])
161
SS SS SS SS
250 125 60
F F
4.0
0 0
A
Overexposed
Compensate the exposure
towards negative.
(P86)
30 15
5.6 8.0
5 5
2
98 98 98
00
B