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Here, with the camera in Manual mode, the histogram looks to be
displaying a perfect exposure whilst the exposure meter is showing the
image to be very much underexposed.
If you half depress the shutter button you will see the “live view” of the
way the image will be taken with the whites and mid tones crushed into
the blacks. Compare this with the manual exposure set correctly.
So as you see in the Manual mode the histogram is only showing the
distribution of brightness values and not how they will be recorded!
You can become fairly quickly skilled in reading a histogram and how the
different lighting contrast levels affects the way the “skew” of the curve
looks.
Thankfully we have an immediate display of the recorded image now as
soon as the image has been captured and we can evaluate the exposure
directly.
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