Easy Exposure Compensation

My DSLR has a great feature…and yours may too.

I can set my back command dial for exposure compensation; so I can choose the aperture (depth of field) with the front dial, and set the exposure with the back. AE only gets you to a staring point; EC gets you the exposure you really want. Check to see if your Camera has this feature too, because it’s much easier than holding down the exposure compensation button and rotating the dial.

But my camera also has an additional setting…reset. This resets the EC whenever you turn the camera off. And it works great. But the even cooler thing is what it resets it to. I almost always underexpose by 1/3 stop if I shoot JPEG, (which experience affords me the ability to do) and if I’ve set that with the EC button/dial combo, then that’s what it resets to. This gives me two levels of control. Fabulous.

If your camera has this feature…check it out and let me know how it works for you.