IPT
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exposure compensaton can be a bit tricky to grasp. In a nut shell the camera always wants to make everything an 18% grey. For snow (white) you need to (+) approx 2 stops, for dark images (-) a few stops.
The various way to do this is A - pre-set the exposure compensation, say (+) 2 for snow. Now use AV (apperature priority or Shutter priority) and it will automatically choose a setting for (+) 2 stops (or whatever you set it too)...or B - Choose manual mode. Set one parameter (either shutter or F stop) then use the dial to change the other one. As you do so the exposure (compensation) scale you are referring to will reflect how the change will affect the overall exposure of the image in stops of either over or underexposure (verse the grey it's ideal is - not based on what that particular image needs to look the way you see it).
Hope that made sense, and was what you were talking about
PS: Yeah, it was a wood duck. I looked up it's range and it was a lot bigger than I thought. Glad he was alive
The various way to do this is A - pre-set the exposure compensation, say (+) 2 for snow. Now use AV (apperature priority or Shutter priority) and it will automatically choose a setting for (+) 2 stops (or whatever you set it too)...or B - Choose manual mode. Set one parameter (either shutter or F stop) then use the dial to change the other one. As you do so the exposure (compensation) scale you are referring to will reflect how the change will affect the overall exposure of the image in stops of either over or underexposure (verse the grey it's ideal is - not based on what that particular image needs to look the way you see it).
Hope that made sense, and was what you were talking about
PS: Yeah, it was a wood duck. I looked up it's range and it was a lot bigger than I thought. Glad he was alive
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