Reference Manual
Table Of Contents
- Quick Topic Search
- Introduction
- Parts of the Camera
- Getting Started
- Basic Shooting and Playback Operations
- Connecting to a Smart Device (SnapBridge)
- Shooting Features
- Selecting a Shooting Mode
- Auto Mode
- Scene Mode (Shooting Suited to the Shooting Conditions)
- Creative Mode (Applying Effects When Shooting)
- Smart Portrait Mode (Enhancing Human Faces When Shooting)
- Setting Shooting Functions with the Multi Selector
- Flash Mode
- Self-timer
- Macro Mode (Taking Close-up Pictures)
- Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
- Using the Zoom
- Focusing
- Default Settings (Flash, Self-timer, and Macro Mode)
- Functions That Cannot Be Used Simultaneously When Shooting
- Playback Features
- Playback Zoom
- Thumbnail Playback/Calendar Display
- List by Date Mode
- Viewing and Deleting Images in a Sequence
- Editing Images (Still Images)
- Before Editing Images
- Quick Effects: Changing Hue or Mood
- Quick Retouch: Enhancing Contrast and Saturation
- D-Lighting: Enhancing Brightness and Contrast
- Red-eye Correction: Correcting Red-eye When Shooting with the Flash
- Glamour Retouch: Enhancing Human Faces
- Small Picture: Reducing the Size of an Image
- Crop: Creating a Cropped Copy
- Movies
- Connecting the Camera to a TV, Printer, or Computer
- Using the Menu
- Technical Notes
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Shooting Features
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 smart portrait mode,
the glamour retouch screen is displayed instead of
the exposure compensation screen (A48).
• When the shooting mode is A (auto) mode, the
creative slider is displayed instead of the exposure compensation screen (A34).
C Exposure Compensation Value
When the shooting mode is Multiple exp. Lighten (A39) or Fireworks show (A40)
scene mode, exposure compensation cannot be used.
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 value shifts tone distribution to the right, and
decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left.
Exposure Compensation (Adjusting Brightness)
Exposure compensation
+2.0
+0.3
-2.0
Histogram