Exposure compensation is a
very useful feature on cameras
that I never, ever use.
But it is useful, it genuinely is
useful with exposure compensation.
You basically telling the camera
that you pretty much always disagree
with how it's monitoring the scene.
You think it's either
make it too bright or too too dark
and you will apply exposure compensation,
number of either
plus or minus,
whether you want it to be brighter
or darker,
and the camera will adjust
settings accordingly.
Now exposure compensation,
you can be in any metering mode
and any semi-automatic mode on the camera
doesn't really matter.
And then you can choose
to compensate the exposure,
so for example, in this mode here
we are in standard spot metering,
we don't want to change metering mode.
We can choose to use the
exposure compensation mode.
Say we think it's over metereing
a little bit here,
and we want things to go
a little bit darker,
so we just turn the dial on the camera.
Usually.
And you'll see that the camera
takes into account
what you set as your priority,
and it's moving
the shutter
speed accordingly,
so it's recalculated
based upon what you want.
As you can see
The camera is making that decision
based upon your influence,
using the exposure compensation,
which can be very useful on the fly.
So here
we moved into
shutter priority mode,
so the camera is going to be moving
F stop.
because we are choosing the shutter.
So we want to try again.
So we want the scene oa little brighter
increase, the exposure compensation.
The F-Stop goes up.
darken with the exposure
compensation
and the F-Stop closes down even further.
Again, of course,
never forget that
the board plays a much bigger impact
on how you like it than fine.
Tune it with the exposure compensation
So on some cameras, it's
indicated by a square with
a diagonal line
dividing it half its white,
half its darkness, plus minus symbol
and on this particular Sony camera.
It has a dial.
You can just simply turn
now on lots of cameras.
Exposure compensation
is only available
in the semi-automatic modes
because it tells the camera
that when it's selected at speed,
you'd like it a slight, slightly brighter
or slightly darker.
That would some cameras.
Not all cameras.
It would also be applied in the
manual mode.
Now what is in
the manual mode
is a little bit counterintuitive.
If you have the camera set to
F4.5 shutter speed 1/500th
ISO 100 and you press
and you increase the brightness
by exposure compensation,
it raises them all
simultaneously like the links,
and they're all
driven by the same amount,
so you will maintain
similar depth of field.
You will maintain
similar balance
of depth of field and movement,
and the ISO will go up as well.
But in every camera I've ever used.
That extra
information doesn't
actually translate
to a change in the settings,
so some people use it when they feel
their camera is faulty or wrong,
and it doesn't
calculate things the way they expect it to.
It's real use, and it's real benefit, in
my opinion,
is when used in semi-automatic modes,
when you feel like your camera tends
to select too slow a shutter speed or too fast a
shutter speed,
to widen aperture
or to shadow it aperture.
You can use exposure compensation
to force it to go the other way.
Hope that makes sense.
It is a mode
you can totally avoid.
I do totally avoid it personally
because I forget when I've left it on.
You can
if you refer back to the other video,
you can probably achieve the same
by controlling the metering modes