49More on PhotographyControlling Exposure: Exposure CompensationExposure compensation is used to alter the exposure from the value suggest-ed by the camera. Exposure compensation can be set to values between –2.0EV (underexposure) and +2.0 EV (overexposure) in increments of 1/3 EV.Selecting Exposure Comp. While Displaying Focus Area Selection GuideWhen AF area mode ( 98) is set to Manual ( 100) and focus area selectionguide is displayed on the monitor, press to hide focus area selection guide and se-lect the Exposure compensation.Cancelling Exposure CompensationTo cancel exposure compensation, select a value of 0. In (Auto shooting) mode, aselected value remains even if the camera is turned off. In another shooting mode, ex-posure compensation returns to the default value for the selected mode when the cam-era is turned off or the Mode Dial is rotated.Exposure CompensationExposure compensation is not available when FIREWORKS SHOW ( 40) is select-ed in the scene mode.Display Exposure comp. menu and a his-togram.Highlight desired value.Exit menu. icon and a value for expo-sure compensation are displayed in mon-itor at settings other than 0 (to exitwithout changing setting, wait two sec-onds without pressing Button).:Confir:Confirm+0.3-0.3Exposure compExposure comp.:Confir:ConfirmHistogram:Confir:ConfirmExposure compExposure comp.+1.3+0.7+1.0 :Confir:Confirm[ 8][ 8]
