Canon EOS Rebel 2000 - Manual (Page 52)

Exposure Compensation
Changing the exposure level set by the camera is called exposure compensation.
Exposure compensation can be used to make the picture darker or brighter
intentionally. Exposure compensation can be set up to ±2 stops In half-stop increments.
Turn the Command Dial to a
Creative Zone mode except .
Press the shutter button halfway
and check the exposure display.
Press and hold down the <£!t> button
and turn the < > until the desired
exposure compensation amount is set.
• The plus side of the scale Indicates
overexposure and the minus side of the
scale Indicates underexposure.
- 2 . 1 . ^ . 1 . 2 +
Underexposure -*....................|................... ► Overexposure
• To cancel the exposure compensation
setting, set the exposure level indicator
to tp. The exposure compensation
setting will not be canceled automatically
when the Command Dial is set to <[|>.
Take the picture.
•The exposure compensation setting will be canceled if the Command Dial is
set to a Basic Zone mode.
• Assuming that a shutter speed of 1/125 sec. and an aperture of f/5.6 will give a
correct exposure, setting the exposure compensation amount to plus or minus
1 stop on the exposure level scale will be equivalent to the following settings:
-1 stop <- 0 -> +1 stop
Shutter Speed 250 <- 125 ^ 60
Aperture 8.0 <- 5.6 ^ 4.0
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