Nikon Coolpix A300 - Manual (Page 66)

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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 (
A40).
• When the shooting mode is A (auto) mode, the
creative slider is displayed instead of the exposure compensation screen ( A28).
C
Exposure Compensation Value
• The setting may not be available with some shooting modes (A57).
• If the setting is applied in A (auto) mode, it will remain saved in the camera’s memory
even after the camera is turned off.
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 the exposure compensation value shifts tone distribution to the right, and
decreasing it shifts tone distribution to the left.
Exposure Compensation (Adjusting
Brightness)
Exposure compensation
Histogram