Instruction manual

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Typical Histogram examples:
Correctly exposed image
This is an example of a correctly exposed image
with a "good" histogram. The smooth curve
downwards ending in 255 shows that the subtle
highlight detail in the clouds and waves is
preserved. Likewise, the shadow area starts at 0 and
builds up gradually.
Underexposed image
The histogram indicates there are a lot of pixels
with value 0 or close to 0, which is an indication of
"clipped shadows". Some shadow detail is lost.
Unless there is a lot of pure black in the image,
there should not be that many pure black pixels.
There are also very few pixels in the highlight area.
Overexposed image
The histogram indicates there are a lot of pixels
with value 255 or close to 255, which is an
indication of "clipped highlights". Subtle highlight
detail in the clouds and waves is lost. There are also
very few pixels in the shadow area.