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[OM] Re: E-1 what's the first settings you changed

Subject: [OM] Re: E-1 what's the first settings you changed
From: swisspace <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:48:57 +0200
Sorry for my digital ignorance, but how do I read the histogram, am I 
just looking that none of the peaks go too high, I guess this should be 
my next stage of experimentation, but what's a good histogram and what's 
a bad one


thanks in advance


> * AEL/AFL -- I pondered what to do with this for a long time because the 
> auto-exposure lock was really important to the way I was working with the 
> C8080.  I think life is just different with the E-1.  If ESP exposure is 
> suspect, I now just switch to M mode and work with manual exposure 
> settings.  Chimp and adjust.
> * Chimp Mode -- speaking of this -- once you've hit the display button, 
> pushing the INFO button overlays the histogram.  The default setting on the 
> monitor doesn't hold enough information to display the highlights very 
> accurately, so one click provides a quick check of the histogram.  It is 
> also possible to get the display to show blown highlights.  I don't find 
> this to be necessary with the histogram available.
> 
> HTH,
> Joel W.
> 
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