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Working with exposure level increments

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Working with exposure level increments

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By default, your exposure compensation indicator works in one third stop increments. So when I move one click after metering, that means one third of a stop of overexposure, two thirds of a stop, one full stop, one and a third, and so on. If you want, you can change that. If you go in here to the first page of the custom function category, you get Exposure level increments. If I come in here, I can change from one third stop to one half stop. The idea here is, a third of a stop might be far more granularity than you need for the way that you like to expose, or for the lighting situation that you're in, so if you switch to a half a stop, you can move up and down the scale with fewer steps. So now, when I do one click of the dial, I get one half stop over exposure; another click gets me to one. So that's one and half, that's two, two and a half, three; of course, the same thing works in the other direction. So this gives me just two clicks to get to one stop of underexposure, rather…

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